Diocese of Sarh
Sarhen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Sarh, Chad
The Diocese of Sarh in Chad was erected in 1961 as the Diocese of Fort-Archambault and renamed Sarh in 1972. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of N'Djamena, with Miguel Ángel Sebastián Martínez, M.C.C.J., as bishop since 2018.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 22 August 1972
- Latin
- Sarhen(sis)
- Patron
- Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception
- Annuario code
- 001003008
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 85,917
- Population
- 800,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 10.7%
- Priests
- 13
- Catholics per priest
- 6,609
- Extent
- 41,755 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 2.1
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
- Miguel Ángel Sebastián Martínez
- Born
- 28 September 1950
- Birthplace
- Zaragoza
- 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
Cathédrale Notre-Dame de l'Immaculée Conception, Sarh stands in Sarh, 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 N'Djamena
A suffragan of Archdiocese of N'Djamena.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of DobaDoba
- Diocese of GoréGoré
- Diocese of MoundouMoundou
- Diocese of PalaPala
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Evêché, B.P. 87, Sarh, Tchad
- Telephone
- 66.27.16.69
- diosarh@yahoo.fr
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.