Diocese of Sangmélima
Sangmelimaën(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Sangmélima, Cameroon
Latin rite diocese in southern Cameroon, erected in 1963 from the Diocese of Douala and suffragan to the Archdiocese of Yaoundé. Its see is the Cathédrale Notre-Dame in Sangmélima. No active official diocesan website was verified, only an official Facebook page.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 18 January 1963
- Latin
- Sangmelimaën(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001002900
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 100,864
- Population
- 216,075
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 46.7%
- Priests
- 46
- Catholics per priest
- 2,193
- Extent
- 20,261 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 5.0
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
- Christophe Zoa
- Born
- 10 June 1961
- Birthplace
- Yaoundé
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 Notre-Dame, Sangmélima stands in Sangmélima, 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 Yaoundé
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Yaoundé.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of BafiaBafia
- Diocese of KribiKribi
- Diocese of ObalaObala
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Seated in the city of Sangmélima in Cameroon, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sangmélima (Latin: Sangmelimaën(sis)) belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Yaoundé.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Evêché, B.P. 239, Sangmélima, Cameroun
- Telephone
- 698.651.782
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.