Diocese of Port-Bergé
Portus Bergen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Port-Bergé, Madagascar
The Diocese of Port-Bergé is a Latin Rite diocese in northwestern Madagascar, erected in 1993 from the Diocese of Mahajanga. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Antsiranana, led by Bishop Georges Varkey Puthiyakulangara since 2013.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 18 October 1993
- Latin
- Portus Bergen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001002633
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 10,400
- Population
- 518,451
- Catholic share
- 2.0%
- Priests
- 27
- Catholics per priest
- 385
- Extent
- 23,367 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.4
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
- Georges Varkey Puthiyakulangara
- Born
- 26 January 1953
- Birthplace
- Endoor
- Institute
- SOCIETÀ PER LE MISSIONI ESTERE DI PARIGI
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
de María Asunta al Cielo stands in Port-Bergé, 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 Antsiranana
A suffragan of Antsiranana.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of AntsirananaAntsiranana
- Diocese of AmbanjaAmbanja
- Diocese of MahajangaMahajanga
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Port-Bergé, a city within the ecclesiastical province of Antsiranana in Madagascar, is the seat of this Roman Catholic diocese, known in Latin as Portus Bergen(sis).
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].