Diocese of Mongu
Monguen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Mongu, Zambia
The Diocese of Mongu is a Latin Church diocese in Western Province, Zambia, created on 14 June 1997 from the Diocese of Livingstone. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Lusaka, led by Bishop Evans Chinyama Chinyemba, O.M.I.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 14 June 1997
- Latin
- Monguen(sis)
- Patron
- Our Lady of Lourdes
- Annuario code
- 001002271
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 56,386
- Population
- 621,492
- Catholic share
- 9.1%
- Priests
- 43
- Catholics per priest
- 1,311
- Extent
- 87,293 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.6
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
- Evans Chinyemba
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
Cathedral of Our Lady of Lourdes stands in Mongu, 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 Lusaka
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Lusaka.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of LusakaLusaka
- Diocese of ChipataChipata
- Diocese of KabweKabwe
- Diocese of LivingstoneLivingstone
- Diocese of MonzeMonze
- Diocese of SolweziSolwezi
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Bishop's Office, P.O. Box 910449, Mongu, Western Province, Zambia
- Telephone
- [217]221.187; fax 221.984
- [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].