Diocese of Sarh
Sarhen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Sarh, Chad
The Diocese of Sarh in Chad was erected in 1961 as the Diocese of Fort-Archambault and renamed Sarh in 1972. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of N'Djamena, with Miguel Ángel Sebastián Martínez, M.C.C.J., as bishop since 2018.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 22 August 1972
- Latin
- Sarhen(sis)
- Patron
- Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception
- Annuario code
- 001003008
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 85,917
- Priests
- 13
- Catholics per priest
- 6,609
- Extent
- 41,755 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 2.1
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
- Miguel Ángel Sebastián Martínez
- Born
- 28 September 1950
- Birthplace
- Zaragoza
- Institute
- MISSIONARI COMBONIANI DEL CUORE DI GESÙ
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 Notre-Dame de l'Immaculée Conception, Sarh stands in Sarh, 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 MoundouMoundou
- Diocese of PalaPala
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Evêché, B.P. 87, Sarh, Tchad
- Telephone
- 66.27.16.69
- [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].