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Suffragan diocese Kikwit, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Diocese of Kikwit

Kikuiten(sis)

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.

On the map

Esri
Kikwit, Democratic Republic of the Congo, drawn to the town rather than to the door: the register holds no verified address for its cathedral.

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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.

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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.

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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.