Diocese of Makeni
Makenen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Makeni, Sierra Leone
The Diocese of Makeni is a Latin Catholic see in northern Sierra Leone, established as an apostolic prefecture in 1952 and raised to a diocese in 1962. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Freetown.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 24 February 1962
- Latin
- Makenen(sis)
- Patron
- Our Lady of Fatima
- Annuario code
- 001002112
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 38,000
- Population
- 1,800,000
- Catholic share
- 2.1%
- Priests
- 72
- Catholics per priest
- 528
- Extent
- 36,075 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 1.1
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
- Bob John Hassan Koroma
- Born
- 17 November 1971
- Birthplace
- Kamabai
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
Our Lady of Fatima Cathedral stands in Makeni, 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 Freetown
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Freetown.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of FreetownFreetown
- Diocese of BoBo
- Diocese of KenemaKenema
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Within Sierra Leone's ecclesiastical province of Freetown lies the Diocese of Makeni, known in Latin as Makenen(sis). Its bishop's seat is the Our Lady of Fatima Cathedral in Makeni. The diocese passed through a difficult chapter in 2012, when most of its priests objected to the appointment of Henry Aruna as bishop; the see was declared vacant in April of that year.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Diocesan Curia, Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma Road, P.O. Box 1, Makeni, Sierra Leone
- Telephone
- [076]327.474; [077]047.073
- [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].