Diocese of Port-Gentil
Portus Gentil(is)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Port-Gentil, Gabon
The Diocese of Port-Gentil is a Latin Rite diocese in western Gabon, erected in 2003. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Libreville, led by Bishop Eusebius Chinekezi Ogbonna Managwu since 2016.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 7 March 2003
- Latin
- Portus Gentil(is)
- Annuario code
- 001002637
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 71,705
- Population
- 127,300
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 56.3%
- Priests
- 15
- Catholics per priest
- 4,780
- Extent
- 22,850 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 3.1
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
- Euzébius Chinekezy Ogbonna Managwu
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
Cathédrale Saint-Louis stands in Port-Gentil, 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 Libreville
A suffragan of Libreville.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of LibrevilleLibreville
- Diocese of FrancevilleFranceville
- Diocese of MouilaMouila
- Diocese of OyemOyem
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
In Gabon, the city of Port-Gentil, within the ecclesiastical province of Libreville, is the seat of this Roman Catholic diocese (Latin: Portus Gentil(is), French: Diocèse catholique romain de Port-Gentil).
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Evêché, B.P. 425, Port-Gentil, Gabon
- Telephone
- 06.95.79.72; 07.60.89.08
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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Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.