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Diocese of Kaga-Bandoro

Kagien(sis)-Bandoren(sis)

The Diocese of Kaga-Bandoro is a Latin Catholic diocese in the Central African Republic, erected in 1997 from the Archdiocese of Bangui. A suffragan of Bangui, it is led by Bishop Victor Hugo Castillo Matarrita, M.C.C.J.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
28 June 1997
Latin
Kagien(sis)-Bandoren(sis)
Patron
St. Therese of the Child Jesus
Annuario code
001001776

The see in figures

Catholics
50,347
Priests
29
Catholics per priest
1,736
Extent
95,000 km²
Catholics per km²
0.5

Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.

The bishop

Bishop
Victor Hugo Castillo Matarrita
Born
19 March 1963
Birthplace
Mansión
Institute
MISSIONARI COMBONIANI DEL CUORE DI GESÙ

A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.

The cathedral

Cathedral of St. Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, Kaga-Bandoro stands in Kaga-Bandoro, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.

The province of Bangui

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Bangui.

The sees of this province:

On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.

History

In the Central African Republic, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kaga-Bandoro (Latin: Kagien(sis)-Bandoren(sis)) has its seat in Kaga-Bandoro, within the ecclesiastical province of Bangui.

How to reach it

Diocesan offices
Evêché, B.P. 898, Bangui, Rép. Centrafricaine
Telephone
7442.3334

This see keeps no website of its own, so the address of its diocesan offices is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.

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Sources

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Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.