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Suffragan diocese Lolo, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Diocese of Lolo

Loloën(sis)

Latin-rite diocese in the Mongala region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, established as an Apostolic Prefecture on 22 February 1937 and erected as a diocese on 2 July 1962. It is a suffragan of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Mbandaka-Bikoro.

On the map

Esri
Lolo, 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
1962
Catholics
79,239
Priests
22
Territory
10,000 km²

Parishes and churches

7 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.

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The bishop

Bishop
Jean-Bertin Nadonye Ndongo, O.F.M. Cap.

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The cathedral

Catedral de San Juan Bautista stands in Lolo, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

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History

Though it bears the name Lolo (Latin: Loloën(sis)), this Roman Catholic diocese of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is seated in the town of Bumba, within the ecclesiastical province of Mbandaka-Bikoro.