Diocese of Mopti
Moptien(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Mopti, Mali
The Diocese of Mopti is a Latin Church diocese in central Mali, established on 29 September 1964. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Bamako and has been led by Bishop Jean-Baptiste Tiama since 2020.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 29 September 1964
- Latin
- Moptien(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001002291
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 42,437
- Priests
- 25
- Catholics per priest
- 1,697
- Extent
- 896,384 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.0
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
- Jean-Baptiste Tiama
- Birthplace
- Nazar
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
Cathédrale Saint-Joseph stands in Mopti, 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 Bamako
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Bamako.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of BamakoBamako
- Diocese of KayesKayes
- Diocese of SanSan
- Diocese of SikassoSikasso
- Diocese of SégouSégou
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Seated in the city of Mopti in Mali, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mopti (Latin: Moptien(sis), French: Diocèse catholique romain de Mopti) belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Bamako. Following the death of bishop Georges Fonghoro the see stands vacant; Jean-Baptiste Tiama was appointed to it on 27 March 2020, with no information yet about installation.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Evêché, B.P. 45, Mopti, Rép. du Mali
- Telephone
- 21.72.09.70
- [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].