Diocese of Moundou
Munduen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Moundou, Chad
The Diocese of Moundou is a Latin Church diocese in southern Chad, established as an apostolic prefecture in 1951 and promoted to a diocese on 19 February 1959. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of N'Djamena and has been led by Bishop Joachim Kouraleyo Tarounga since 2004.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 19 February 1959
- Latin
- Munduen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001002307
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 272,790
- Priests
- 44
- Catholics per priest
- 6,200
- Extent
- 8,695 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 31
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
- Joachim Kouraleyo Tarounga
- Born
- 1 January 1961
- Birthplace
- Donia
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 du Sacre-Coeur stands in Moundou, 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 N'Djamena
A suffragan of Archdiocese of N'Djamena.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of DobaDoba
- Diocese of GoréGoré
- Diocese of PalaPala
- Diocese of SarhSarh
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Evêché, B.P. 61, Moundou, Tchad
- Telephone
- 6632.49.54
- [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].