Diocese of Mbanza Congo
Mbanzacongen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Mbanza Congo, Angola
Latin rite diocese in M'Banza Congo, Zaire Province, Angola, erected on November 7, 1984, from the Diocese of Uije. It is a suffragan of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Luanda.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 7 November 1984
- Latin
- Mbanzacongen(sis)
- Patron
- Our Lady of the Conception
- Annuario code
- 001002199
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 378,468
- Priests
- 16
- Catholics per priest
- 23,654
- Extent
- 39,459 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 9.6
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
- Vicente Carlos Kiaziku
- Born
- 28 August 1957
- Birthplace
- Kimacaka-Damba
- Institute
- ORDINE FRANCESCANO FRATI MINORI CAPPUCCINI
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
Se Catedral de Nossa Senhora da Conceicao stands in Mbanza Congo, 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 Luanda
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Luanda.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of LuandaLuanda
- Diocese of CabindaCabinda
- Diocese of CaxitoCaxito
- Diocese of SumbeSumbe
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
In Angola, the city of M'Banza Congo is the seat of the Diocese of Mbanza Congo (Latin: Dioecesis Mbanzacongensis), part of the ecclesiastical province of Luanda.
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 chancery's address, telephone and email, 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
The see's own website · Wikipedia
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].