Diocese of Bangassou
Bangassuen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Bangassou, Central African Republic
The Diocese of Bangassou in the Central African Republic was erected as a diocese in 1964 and is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Bangui. Bishop Juan José Aguirre, a Comboni Missionary, has led it since 2000, with Aurelio Gazzera, O.C.D., named coadjutor bishop in 2024.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 10 February 1964
- Latin
- Bangassuen(sis)
- Patron
- Saint Peter Claver
- Annuario code
- 001000811
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 82,500
- Priests
- 29
- Catholics per priest
- 2,845
- Extent
- 134,284 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.6
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
- Juan José Aguirre Muñoz, M.C.C.J.
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
Saint Peter Claver Cathedral stands in Bangassou, 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 Bangui
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Bangui.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of BanguiBangui
- Diocese of AlindaoAlindao
- Diocese of BambariBambari
- Diocese of BossangoaBossangoa
- Diocese of Kaga-BandoroKaga-Bandoro
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Bangassou, in the Mbomou prefecture of the Central African Republic, is the seat of a suffragan diocese (Latin: Bangassuen(sis)) within the ecclesiastical province of Bangui. The see remains dependent on the missionary Dicastery for Evangelization. Its cathedral, the Cathédrale Saint Pierre Claver, honors the Jesuit Saint Peter Claver.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Evêché, B.P. 84, Bangassou, Rép. Centrafricaine
- [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].