Suffragan diocese Kikwit, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Diocese of Kikwit
Kikuiten(sis)
Latin Church
Latin-rite diocese in Kwilu Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, tracing to an Apostolic Prefecture of 1903 and promoted to diocese on 10 November 1959. Covering about 62,000 km2 with over two million Catholics, it is a suffragan of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Kinshasa.
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- Established
- 1959
- Catholics
- 2,004,852
- Priests
- 183
- Territory
- 62,000 km²
Parishes and churches
47 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
- Monastère de Notre-Dame de l’Emmanuel (Trappistes) (1958)KasanzaView parish
- Notre-Dame de Banneux (1954)MosangoView parish
- Notre-Dame de Fatima (1955)BulunguView parish
- Notre-Dame des Pauvres (1938)Kahemba/ShamusengaView parish
- Notre-Dame des Pauvres (1958)Kahemba/ShamusengaView parish
- Sacré-Cœur (1921)KikwitView parish
- Sacré-Cœur (1935)KimbongoView parish
- Saint-André Kaggwa (1963)KikwitView parish
- Saint-Augustin (1953)Kahemba-CitéView parish
- Saint-Augustin (1968)Kahemba-CitéView parish
- Saint-Charles Lwanga (1992) Kikwit IIKikwitView parish
- Saint-Esprit (1979)KikwitView parish
- Saint-François Xavier (1930)KikwitView parish
- Saint-François Xavier (1949)BengiView parish
- Saint-François Xavier (1963)TangoView parish
- Saint-Germain (1962)DueView parish
- Saint-Guidon (1919)DjumaView parish
- Saint-Ignace (1948)KiniatiView parish
- Saint-Isidore le Laboureur (1961)SiaView parish
- Saint-Jean de Britto (1948)DjumaView parish
- Saint-Jean l’Evangéliste (1963)LusangaView parish
- Saint-Joseph (1915)SoaView parish
- Saint-Joseph (1954)AtenView parish
- Saint-Kizito (1972)IsinguView parish
- Saint-Louis (1951)Bonga-YasaView parish
- Saint-Louis de Gonzague (1936)KisanjiView parish
- Saint-Marc (1963)BeyaView parish
- Saint-Maurice (1949)Masi-ManimbaView parish
- Saint-Murumba (1978)KikwitView parish
- Saint-Paul (1929)KinganduView parish
This is our recorded coverage, not an official diocesan parish count. Confirm service times with the parish before travelling.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Timothee Bodika Mansiyai, P.S.S.
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The cathedral
Catedral de San Francisco Javier stands in Kikwit, 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.
History
Kikwit, a city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is the seat of a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church (Latin: Kikuiten(sis)) belonging to the ecclesiastical province of Kinshasa.