Diocese of Oyem
Oyemen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Oyem, Gabon
The Diocese of Oyem is a Latin Church diocese in northern Gabon, erected in 1969 from the Archdiocese of Libreville. It is a suffragan of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Libreville and led by Bishop Jean-Vincent Ondo Eyene.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 29 May 1969
- Latin
- Oyemen(sis)
- Patron
- Saint Charles Lwanga
- Annuario code
- 001002503
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 78,020
- Population
- 159,615
- Catholic share
- 48.9%
- Priests
- 42
- Catholics per priest
- 1,858
- Extent
- 84,540 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.9
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
- Jean-Vincent Ondo Eyene
- Born
- 22 January 1960
- Birthplace
- Koulamoutou
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 Saint-Charles-Lwanga, Oyem stands in Oyem, 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 Libreville
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Libreville.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of LibrevilleLibreville
- Diocese of FrancevilleFranceville
- Diocese of MouilaMouila
- Diocese of Port-GentilPort-Gentil
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
The city of Oyem in Gabon gives its name to this Roman Catholic diocese (Latin: Oyemen(sis); French: Diocèse catholique romain d'Oyem), which forms part of the ecclesiastical province of Libreville.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Evêché, B.P. 209, Oyem, Gabon
- Telephone
- 77.91.80.91
- [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].