Diocese of Bahir Dar–Dessie
Bahirdardessien(sis)
Suffragan eparchy · Alexandrian tradition · Bahir Dar–Dessie, Ethiopia
The Eparchy of Bahir Dar-Dessie is an Alexandrian (Ge'ez) rite eparchy of the Ethiopian Catholic Church, erected on 19 January 2015 as a suffragan of the Archeparchy of Addis Abeba. It has been led by Eparch Lisane-Christos Matheos Semahun since its erection. Note: provided as Latin rite but it is in fact an Ethiopic-rite eparchy.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan eparchy
- Tradition
- Alexandrian tradition
- Erected
- 19 January 2015
- Latin
- Bahirdardessien(sis)
- Patron
- san Frumencio
- Annuario code
- 001000791
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 17,544
- Population
- 16,215,850
- Catholic share
- 0.1%
- Priests
- 28
- Catholics per priest
- 627
- Extent
- 221,776 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.1
of the people living within its bounds
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
- Eparch
- Lisane-Christos Matheos Semahun
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
Cathedral of Egziabher Ab, Bahir Dar stands in Bahir Dar–Dessie, 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 Addis Abeba
A suffragan of Archeparchy of Addis Abeba.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of Addis AbebaAddis Abeba
- Diocese of AdigratAdigrat
- Diocese of EmdeberEmdeber
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
One of three suffragan eparchies in the province of the Metropolitan Ethiopian Catholic Archeparchy of Addis Abeba, which covers all Ethiopia, the Ethiopian Catholic Eparchy of Bahir Dar-Dessie (Bahir Dar-Dessie of the Ethiopics) is an Eastern Catholic diocese. That province comprises the entire Ethiopian Catholic Church sui iuris, which follows the Alexandrian Rite in the liturgical Ge'ez language; the eparchy nevertheless depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Oriental Churches.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- P.O. Box 1058, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia
- Telephone
- 926.716.179; [058]220.19.27
- [email protected]
This see keeps no website of its own, so its chancery 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.
What is kept by invitation
The record above is published because it is public: what this see is, when it was erected, who holds its chair, and where it stands among its neighbours.
The working record is not. The clergy of the see, and the hours of Mass, confession and adoration in the parishes within it, are kept for members, and a person reads every request.
Sources
This record is compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. On the method, see the keeping of the record. Whoever finds an error is asked, in charity, to write: [email protected].