Diocese of Kaolack
Kaolacken(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Kaolack, Senegal
The Diocese of Kaolack is a Latin rite see in central Senegal, established as an apostolic prefecture in 1957 and promoted to a diocese on 6 July 1965. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Dakar.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 6 July 1965
- Latin
- Kaolacken(sis)
- Patron
- Saint Theophile
- Annuario code
- 001001807
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 14,450
- Population
- 1,741,000
- Catholic share
- 0.8%
- Priests
- 61
- Catholics per priest
- 237
- Extent
- 21,299 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.7
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
- Martin Boucar Tine
- Born
- 16 September 1966
- Birthplace
- Koudiadiène
- Institute
- CONGREGAZIONE DEL SS.MO SACRAMENTO (SACRAMENTINI)
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-Theophile stands in Kaolack, 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 Dakar
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Dakar.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of DakarDakar
- Diocese of KoldaKolda
- Diocese of Saint-Louis du SénégalSaint-Louis du Sénégal
- Diocese of TambacoundaTambacounda
- Diocese of ThièsThiès
- Diocese of ZiguinchorZiguinchor
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
In Senegal's ecclesiastical province of Dakar, the city of Kaolack is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kaolack (Latin: Kaolacken(sis), French: Diocèse catholique romain de Kaolack).
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Evêché, B.P. 58, 867 Avenue Basile D. Senghor, Kaolack, Sénégal
- Telephone
- 33.941.13.74; fax 33.941.52.94
- [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].