Diocese of Mbujimayi
Mbugimayen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Mbujimayi, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Latin-rite diocese covering the diamond city of Mbuji-Mayi in Kasai-Oriental Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, established as an Apostolic Administration on 22 November 1963 from the Archdiocese of Luluabourg and the Diocese of Kabinda, and elevated to diocese on 3 May 1966. Its seat is the Cathedrale Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Bonzola, and it is a suffragan of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Kananga.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 3 May 1966
- Latin
- Mbugimayen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001002203
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 2,500,000
- Population
- 4,000,000
- Catholic share
- 62.5%
- Priests
- 186
- Catholics per priest
- 13,441
- Extent
- 15,285 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 164
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
- Bernard Emmanuel Kasanda Mulenga
- Born
- 25 December 1954
- Birthplace
- Kananga
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
Cathedrale Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Bonzola stands in Mbujimayi, 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 KoleKole
- Diocese of LueboLuebo
- Diocese of LuizaLuiza
- Diocese of MwekaMweka
- Diocese of TshilombaTshilomba
- Diocese of TshumbeTshumbe
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
In the Kasai Oriental province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Latin Diocese of Mbujimayi (Latin: Mbugimayen(sis)) serves as a suffragan within the ecclesiastical province of Kananga. Its episcopal see is the Cathédrale Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Bonzola in the city of Mbuji-Mayi.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- 548 Chaussée de Ninove, B-1070 Bruxelles, België
This see keeps no website of its own, so its chancery is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.
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 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
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].