Diocese of Makokou
Makokouen(sis)
Apostolic vicariate · Latin Church · Makokou, Gabon
Makokou is a Latin Catholic Apostolic Vicariate (not a full diocese) in the Ogooue-Ivindo province of northern Gabon, erected as an apostolic prefecture in 2003 and raised to a vicariate in 2014. It is immediately subject to the Holy See rather than part of a metropolitan province.
The see
- Rank
- Apostolic vicariate
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 11 July 2014
- Latin
- Makokouen(sis)
- Patron
- Our Lady of Victory
- Annuario code
- 001000424
The see in figures
- Extent
- 40,000 km²
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
- Severin Nziengui Mangandza
- Born
- 21 February 1970
- Birthplace
- Libreville
- Institute
- CONGREGAZIONE DELLO SPIRITO SANTO
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 Notre-Dame des Victoires stands in Makokou, 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.
History
Among the Catholic jurisdictions of Gabon, the Apostolic Vicariate of Makokou (French: Vicariat apostolique de Makokou) stands apart as the country's last remaining missionary jurisdiction, since the rest of Gabon belongs to the ecclesiastical province headed by the Metropolitan Archbishop of Libreville. The vicariate answers directly to the Holy See through its Dicastery for Evangelization. Its seat is the Cathédrale Notre-Dame des Victoires, dedicated to Our Lady of Victory, in Makokou, capital of the Ogooué-Ivindo province in the north of the country.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- B.P. 20, Makokou, Gabon
- Telephone
- 62.60.82.62
- [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].