Archdiocese of Pointe-Noire
Nigrirostren(sis)
Metropolitan see · Latin Church · Pointe-Noire, Republic of the Congo
Latin-rite metropolitan archdiocese on the coast of the Republic of the Congo, tracing to the Apostolic Vicariate of Loango, renamed the Apostolic Vicariate of Pointe-Noire in January 1949 and raised to metropolitan archdiocese on 30 May 2020 with Dolisie and Nkayi as suffragans. Its seat is the Cathedrale Saint-Pierre-Apotre (St. Peter the Apostle Cathedral) in Pointe-Noire. Archbishop Abel Liluala has led the archdiocese since 6 January 2024.
The see
- Rank
- Metropolitan see
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 30 May 2020
- Latin
- Nigrirostren(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001002617
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 1,000,000
- Population
- 2,000,000
- Catholic share
- 50.0%
- Priests
- 94
- Catholics per priest
- 10,638
- Extent
- 13,500 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 74
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
- Archbishop
- Abel Liluala
- Born
- 23 April 1964
- Birthplace
- Cabinda
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
St. Peter the Apostle Cathedral, Pointe-Noire stands in Pointe-Noire, 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 Pointe-Noire
This see is the metropolitan of its province.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of DolisieDolisie
- Diocese of NkayiNkayi
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Pointe-Noire, in the Republic of the Congo, is the seat of a Roman Catholic archdiocese (Latin: Nigrirostren(sis)). Its province counts two suffragan dioceses, Dolisie and Nkayi.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- 82 rue Avenue Moe Vangoula, Pointe-Noire, Rép. du Congo
- Telephone
- 06.918.13.09
- [email protected]
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].