Diocese of Kole
Kolen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Kole, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Latin-rite diocese in the Sankuru region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, established as an Apostolic Prefecture on 14 June 1951 and promoted to diocese on 14 September 1967. Covering about 66,000 km2, it is a suffragan of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Kananga.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 14 September 1967
- Latin
- Kolen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001001882
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 59,000
- Population
- 280,000
- Catholic share
- 21.1%
- Priests
- 37
- Catholics per priest
- 1,595
- Extent
- 66,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.9
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
- Emery Kibal Nkufi Mansong'loo, C.P.
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
de la Reina de la Paz stands in Kole, 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 Kananga
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Kananga.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of KanangaKananga
- Diocese of KabindaKabinda
- Diocese of LueboLuebo
- Diocese of LuizaLuiza
- Diocese of MbujimayiMbujimayi
- Diocese of MwekaMweka
- Diocese of TshilombaTshilomba
- Diocese of TshumbeTshumbe
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Located in the city of Kole within the ecclesiastical province of Kananga, this Roman Catholic diocese (Latin: Kolen(sis)) of the Democratic Republic of the Congo shares its boundaries exactly with the Territoires ("counties") of Kole, Dekese and Lomela.
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 chancery's address, telephone and email, 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
The see's own website · Wikipedia
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].