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Diocese of Mbaïki

Mbaikien(sis)

Latin rite diocese in Mbaiki, Lobaye, Central African Republic, erected on June 10, 1995, from the Archdiocese of Bangui. It is a suffragan of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Berberati.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
10 June 1995
Latin
Mbaikien(sis)
Annuario code
001002196

The see in figures

Catholics
123,127
Population
310,365
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
39.7%
Priests
17
Catholics per priest
7,243
Extent
26,225 km²
Catholics per km²
4.7

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
Jesús Ruiz Molina
Born
23 January 1959
Birthplace
La Cueva de Roa
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

Cathedrale Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc stands in Mbaïki, 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 Berberati

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Berberati.

The sees of this province:

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

History

Mbaïki, in the Central African Republic, is the seat of a Catholic diocese (Latin: Mbaikien(sis)) belonging to the ecclesiastical province of Berbérati.

How to reach it

Diocesan offices
Evêché, B.P. 19, Mbaïki, Rép. Centrafricaine
Telephone
72.34.41.02

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

Wikipedia

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