Diocese of Bossangoa
Bossangoën(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Bossangoa, Central African Republic
The Diocese of Bossangoa is a Latin Church diocese in the Central African Republic, suffragan to the Archdiocese of Bangui. It was erected as an apostolic prefecture in 1959 and promoted to a diocese on January 16, 1964.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 16 January 1964
- Latin
- Bossangoën(sis)
- Patron
- Saint Anthony of Padua
- Annuario code
- 001000934
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 458,000
- Priests
- 27
- Catholics per priest
- 16,963
- Extent
- 62,680 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 7.3
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
- Nestor-Désiré Nongo-Aziagbia, S.M.A.
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 Saint-Antoine de Padoue stands in Bossangoa, 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 BangassouBangassou
- Diocese of Kaga-BandoroKaga-Bandoro
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
In the Central African Republic, Bossangoa (Latin: Bossangoën(sis)) is a diocese belonging to the ecclesiastical province of Berbérati.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Evêché Bossangoa, B.P. 1728, Bangui, Rép. Centrafricaine
- Telephone
- 75.40.01.80; 72.01.06.87
- [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].