Diocese of Nkongsamba
Nkongsamben(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Nkongsamba, Cameroon
The Diocese of Nkongsamba is a Latin Church diocese in the Littoral Region of Cameroon, established as a diocese in 1955 and a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Douala. Its cathedral is the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Nkongsamba, led by Bishop Dieudonné Espoir Atangana since 2012.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 14 September 1955
- Latin
- Nkongsamben(sis)
- Patron
- Immaculate Conception
- Annuario code
- 001002400
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 148,062
- Population
- 803,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 18.4%
- Priests
- 78
- Catholics per priest
- 1,898
- Extent
- 4,057 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 36
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
- Dieudonné Espoir Atangana
- Born
- 20 March 1958
- Birthplace
- Ngongo
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 the Immaculate Conception stands in Nkongsamba, 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 Douala
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Douala.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of DoualaDouala
- Diocese of BafangBafang
- Diocese of BafoussamBafoussam
- Diocese of EdéaEdéa
- Diocese of EsékaEséka
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
A Latin suffragan see in Cameroon's ecclesiastical province of Douala, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Nkongsamba (Latin: Nkongsamben(sis)) has its episcopal seat at the Cathédrale de l’Immaculée Conception, dedicated to the Immaculate Conception, at Nkongsamba in Moungo Department in the Littoral Region (Cameroon).
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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.