Archdiocese of Malabo
Malaboën(sis)
Metropolitan see · Latin Church · Malabo, Equatorial Guinea
The Archdiocese of Malabo is the metropolitan Latin Catholic see of Equatorial Guinea, originating as an apostolic vicariate in 1855 and elevated to an archdiocese in 1982. It heads the ecclesiastical province of Malabo with suffragan dioceses in Bata, Ebebiyin, Evinayong, and Mongomo.
The see
- Rank
- Metropolitan see
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 15 October 1982
- Latin
- Malaboën(sis)
- Patron
- Virgen Bisila
- Annuario code
- 001002114
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 286,000
- Priests
- 50
- Catholics per priest
- 5,720
- Extent
- 2,034 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 141
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
- Archbishop
- Juan Nsue Edjang Mayé
- Born
- 9 November 1957
- Birthplace
- Mikomeseng
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
Santa Isabel Cathedral stands in Malabo, 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 Malabo
This see is the metropolitan of its province.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of BataBata
- Diocese of EbebiyínEbebiyín
- Diocese of EvinayongEvinayong
- Diocese of MongomoMongomo
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
In Equatorial Guinea, the Archdiocese of Malabo (Latin: Archidioecesis Malaboënsis) serves as the metropolitan see of the ecclesiastical province that bears its name.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Arzobispado, Plaza de la Independencia s/n, Apartado 106, Malabo, Bioko Norte, Guinea Ecuatorial
- Telephone
- 333.092.660
- [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].