Diocese of Bubanza
Bubantin(us)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Bubanza, Burundi
The Diocese of Bubanza is a Latin Church diocese in northwestern Burundi, erected in 1980. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Bujumbura and led by Bishop Emmanuel Ntakarutimana, O.P., appointed in February 2025.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 7 June 1980
- Latin
- Bubantin(us)
- Annuario code
- 001000965
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 2,712
- Population
- 632,218
- Catholic share
- 0.4%
- Priests
- 68
- Catholics per priest
- 40
- Extent
- 2,712 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 1.0
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
- Emmanuel Ntakarutimana
- Born
- 30 December 1956
- Birthplace
- Gitega
- Institute
- FRATI PREDICATORI (DOMENICANI)
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 Christ Roi stands in Bubanza, 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 Bujumbura
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Bujumbura.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of BujumburaBujumbura
- Diocese of BururiBururi
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Seated in the city of Bubanza, this diocese (Latin: Bubantin(a)) belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Bujumbura in Burundi.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Evêché de Bubanza, D.S. 213, Bujumbura, Burundi
- Telephone
- 22.26.11.09/89
- [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].