Diocese of Port-Bergé
Portus Bergen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Port-Bergé, Madagascar
The Diocese of Port-Bergé is a Latin Rite diocese in northwestern Madagascar, erected in 1993 from the Diocese of Mahajanga. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Antsiranana, led by Bishop Georges Varkey Puthiyakulangara since 2013.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 18 October 1993
- Latin
- Portus Bergen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001002633
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 10,400
- Population
- 518,451
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 2.0%
- Priests
- 27
- Catholics per priest
- 385
- Extent
- 23,367 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.4
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
- Georges Varkey Puthiyakulangara
- Born
- 26 January 1953
- Birthplace
- Endoor
- Institute
- SOCIETÀ PER LE MISSIONI ESTERE DI PARIGI
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
Catedral de María Asunta al Cielo stands in Port-Bergé, 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 Antsiranana
A suffragan of Antsiranana.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of AntsirananaAntsiranana
- Diocese of AmbanjaAmbanja
- Diocese of MahajangaMahajanga
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Port-Bergé, a city within the ecclesiastical province of Antsiranana in Madagascar, is the seat of this Roman Catholic diocese, known in Latin as Portus Bergen(sis).
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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.