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Diocese of Manono

Manonen(sis)

Latin-rite diocese in Tanganyika Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, erected on 24 April 1971 from the dioceses of Baudouinville, Kilwa, and Kongolo. It is a suffragan of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Lubumbashi.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
24 April 1971
Latin
Manonen(sis)
Annuario code
001002147

The see in figures

Catholics
152,158
Population
568,748
Catholic share
26.8%

of the people living within its bounds

Priests
35
Catholics per priest
4,347
Extent
45,000 km²
Catholics per km²
3.4

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
Vincent de Paul Kwanga Njubu

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 Santa Bárbara stands in Manono, 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 Lubumbashi

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Lubumbashi.

The sees of this province:

On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.

History

Manono, a city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is the seat of a Roman Catholic diocese (Latin: Manonen(sis)) in the ecclesiastical province of Lubumbashi.

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.

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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].