Diocese of Mbaïki
Mbaikien(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Mbaïki, Central African Republic
Latin rite diocese in Mbaiki, Lobaye, Central African Republic, erected on June 10, 1995, from the Archdiocese of Bangui. It is a suffragan of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Berberati.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 10 June 1995
- Latin
- Mbaikien(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001002196
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 123,127
- Priests
- 17
- Catholics per priest
- 7,243
- Extent
- 26,225 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 4.7
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
- Jesús Ruiz Molina
- Born
- 23 January 1959
- Birthplace
- La Cueva de Roa
- Institute
- MISSIONARI COMBONIANI DEL CUORE DI GESÙ
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 Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc stands in Mbaïki, 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 Berberati
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Berberati.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of BerbératiBerbérati
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Mbaïki, in the Central African Republic, is the seat of a Catholic diocese (Latin: Mbaikien(sis)) belonging to the ecclesiastical province of Berbérati.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Evêché, B.P. 19, Mbaïki, Rép. Centrafricaine
- Telephone
- 72.34.41.02
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].