Diocese of Kaga-Bandoro
Kagien(sis)-Bandoren(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Kaga-Bandoro, Central African Republic
The Diocese of Kaga-Bandoro is a Latin Catholic diocese in the Central African Republic, erected in 1997 from the Archdiocese of Bangui. A suffragan of Bangui, it is led by Bishop Victor Hugo Castillo Matarrita, M.C.C.J.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 28 June 1997
- Latin
- Kagien(sis)-Bandoren(sis)
- Patron
- St. Therese of the Child Jesus
- Annuario code
- 001001776
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 50,347
- Priests
- 29
- Catholics per priest
- 1,736
- Extent
- 95,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.5
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
- Victor Hugo Castillo Matarrita
- Born
- 19 March 1963
- Birthplace
- Mansión
- Institute
- MISSIONARI COMBONIANI DEL CUORE DI GESÙ
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
Cathedral of St. Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, Kaga-Bandoro stands in Kaga-Bandoro, 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 Bangui
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Bangui.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of BanguiBangui
- Diocese of AlindaoAlindao
- Diocese of BambariBambari
- Diocese of BangassouBangassou
- Diocese of BossangoaBossangoa
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
In the Central African Republic, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kaga-Bandoro (Latin: Kagien(sis)-Bandoren(sis)) has its seat in Kaga-Bandoro, within the ecclesiastical province of Bangui.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Evêché, B.P. 898, Bangui, Rép. Centrafricaine
- Telephone
- 7442.3334
- [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].