Diocese of Nkongsamba
Nkongsamben(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Nkongsamba, Cameroon
The Diocese of Nkongsamba is a Latin Church diocese in the Littoral Region of Cameroon, established as a diocese in 1955 and a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Douala. Its cathedral is the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Nkongsamba, led by Bishop Dieudonné Espoir Atangana since 2012.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 14 September 1955
- Latin
- Nkongsamben(sis)
- Patron
- Immaculate Conception
- Annuario code
- 001002400
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 148,062
- Priests
- 78
- Catholics per priest
- 1,898
- Extent
- 4,057 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 36
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
- Dieudonné Espoir Atangana
- Born
- 20 March 1958
- Birthplace
- Ngongo
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 the Immaculate Conception stands in Nkongsamba, 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 Douala
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Douala.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of DoualaDouala
- Diocese of BafangBafang
- Diocese of BafoussamBafoussam
- Diocese of EdéaEdéa
- Diocese of EsékaEséka
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
A Latin suffragan see in Cameroon's ecclesiastical province of Douala, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Nkongsamba (Latin: Nkongsamben(sis)) has its episcopal seat at the Cathédrale de l’Immaculée Conception, dedicated to the Immaculate Conception, at Nkongsamba in Moungo Department in the Littoral Region (Cameroon).
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].