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Suffragan diocese Mahagi, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Diocese of Mahagi-Nioka

Mahagien(sis)-Niokaën(sis)

Latin-rite diocese in Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, erected as the Diocese of Mahagi on 2 July 1962 from the Diocese of Bunia and renamed Mahagi-Nioka on 30 October 1967. It is a suffragan of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Kisangani.

On the map

Esri
Mahagi, 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
1967
Catholics
858,789
Priests
107
Territory
18,490 km²

Parishes and churches

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

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The bishop

Bishop
Sosthene Ayikuli Udjuwa

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The cathedral

Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Lourdes stands in Mahagi, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

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History

In Ituri Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the territories of Mahagi-Nioka form a Roman Catholic diocese (Latin: Romano-Catholicae Dioecesis Mahagi-Nioka; French: Diocèse catholique romain de Mahagi-Nioka) belonging to the ecclesiastical province of Kisangani.