Diocese of Djougou
Diuguen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Djougou, Benin
The Diocese of Djougou is a Latin Catholic diocese in Benin, erected on 10 June 1995 from the Diocese of Natitingou. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Parakou and had about 74,294 Catholics as of 2023.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 10 June 1995
- Latin
- Diuguen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001001311
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 74,294
- Priests
- 51
- Catholics per priest
- 1,457
- Extent
- 11,126 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 6.7
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 Toha Wontacien
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 du Sacre-Coeur stands in Djougou, 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 Parakou
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Parakou.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of ParakouParakou
- Diocese of KandiKandi
- Diocese of NatitingouNatitingou
- Diocese of N’DaliN’Dali
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Within the ecclesiastical province of Cotonou in Benin lies the Roman Catholic Diocese of Djougou (Latin: Dioecesis Diuguensis), seated in the city of Djougou.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Evêché, B.P. 125, Djougou, Bénin
- Telephone
- 01.97.47.53.20; fax 01.97.64.05.25
- [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].