Diocese of Tambacounda
Tambacundan(us)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Tambacounda, Senegal
The Diocese of Tambacounda is a Latin rite see in eastern Senegal, established as an apostolic prefecture in 1970 and promoted to a diocese in 1989. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Dakar and is led by Bishop Paul Abel Mamba Diatta.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 17 April 1989
- Latin
- Tambacundan(us)
- Annuario code
- 001003161
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 15,099
- Population
- 409,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 3.7%
- Priests
- 25
- Catholics per priest
- 604
- Extent
- 59,602 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.3
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
- Paul Abel Mamba Diatta
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
Cathedrale Marie Reine de l'Univers stands in Tambacounda, 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 Dakar
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Dakar.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of DakarDakar
- Diocese of KaolackKaolack
- Diocese of KoldaKolda
- Diocese of Saint-Louis du SénégalSaint-Louis du Sénégal
- Diocese of ThièsThiès
- Diocese of ZiguinchorZiguinchor
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Seated in the Senegalese city of the same name, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tambacounda (Latin: Tambacundan(us); French: Diocèse catholique romain de Tambacounda) forms part of the ecclesiastical province of Dakar.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Evêché, B.P. 351, Tambacounda, Sénégal
- Telephone
- 33.981.18.39
- evechetba@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.