Diocese of Kribi
Kriben(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Kribi, Cameroon
The Diocese of Kribi is a Latin rite suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of Yaoundé, Cameroon, erected on 19 June 2008. Bishop Damase Zinga Atangana has led it since 2015.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 19 June 2008
- Latin
- Kriben(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001001906
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 128,400
- Priests
- 55
- Catholics per priest
- 2,335
- Extent
- 11,208 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 11
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
- Damase Zinga Atangana
- Born
- 9 December 1964
- Birthplace
- Nkog Bong
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
Cathédrale Saint-Joseph stands in Kribi, 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 Yaoundé
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Yaoundé.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of BafiaBafia
- Diocese of ObalaObala
- Diocese of SangmélimaSangmélima
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
In the city of Kribi, Cameroon, within the ecclesiastical province of Yaoundé, stands the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kribi (Latin: Dioecesis Kribensis).
How to reach it
- Chancery
- B.P. 301, Kribi, Cameroun
- Telephone
- 677.396.817
- [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].