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Metropolitan see Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo

Archdiocese of Brazzaville

Brazzapolitan(us)

Latin-rite metropolitan archdiocese covering the capital of the Republic of the Congo, erected in 1886 as the Apostolic Vicariate of French Congo and promoted to Metropolitan Archdiocese of Brazzaville by Pope Pius XII on 14 September 1955. Its seat is the Cathedrale Sacre-Coeur in Brazzaville, and its suffragans include Gamboma and Kinkala. Archbishop Bienvenu Manamika Bafouakouahou took possession of the see on 21 November 2021.

On the map

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The address the register holds for Cathedrale Sacre-Coeur, in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo.

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Established
1955
Catholics
431,225
Priests
192
Territory
14,450 km²

Parishes and churches

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

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The bishop

Archbishop
Bienvenu Manamika Bafouakouahou
Born
16 October 1964
Birthplace
Pool

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The cathedral

Cathedrale Sacre-Coeur stands in Brazzaville, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

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History

Brazzaville, in the Republic of the Congo, is the Metropolitan See of its own ecclesiastical province, governed as the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Brazzaville (Latin: Archidioecesis Brazzapolitana).