Diocese of Bissau
Bissagen(sis)
Diocese immediately subject to the Holy See · Latin Church · Bissau, Guinea-Bissau
Latin rite diocese covering Bissau, Guinea-Bissau, erected in 1977 from an earlier apostolic prefecture and immediately subject to the Holy See. José Lampra Cà has been bishop since 2021.
The see
- Rank
- Diocese immediately subject to the Holy See
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 21 March 1977
- Latin
- Bissagen(sis)
- Patron
- Catedral Nossa Senhora da Candelária
- Annuario code
- 001000908
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 166,000
- Population
- 1,050,000
- Catholic share
- 15.8%
- Priests
- 72
- Catholics per priest
- 2,306
- Extent
- 11,490 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 14
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
- Bishop
- José Lampra Cà
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 Our Lady of Candelária stands in Bissau, 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.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- C.P. 20, Cúria Diocesana, Av. João Bernardo Vieira, 1001 Bissau Codex, Guiné-Bissau
- Telephone
- 96.677.82.31
- [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].