Diocese of Cabinda
Cabindan(us)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Cabinda, Angola
The Diocese of Cabinda is a Latin Church diocese in the Cabinda exclave of Angola, established on July 2, 1984 from the Archdiocese of Luanda, to which it is suffragan. Bishop Belmiro Cuica Chissengueti has led the see since 2018.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 2 July 1984
- Latin
- Cabindan(us)
- Patron
- Our Lady Queen of the World
- Annuario code
- 001000998
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 565,195
- Priests
- 33
- Catholics per priest
- 17,127
- Extent
- 7 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 80,742
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
- Belmiro Cuica Chissengueti
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 Queen of the World stands in Cabinda, 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 Luanda
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Luanda.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of LuandaLuanda
- Diocese of CaxitoCaxito
- Diocese of Mbanza CongoMbanza Congo
- Diocese of SumbeSumbe
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
In the city of Cabinda, within Angola's ecclesiastical province of Luanda, sits the Diocese of Cabinda (Latin: Dioecesis Cabindana).
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Bispado, Rua Gago Coutinho, Largo Pedro Benge, Cabinda, Angola
- Telephone
- 231.222.237
- [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].