Diocese of Sokodé
Sokoden(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Sokodé, Togo
The Diocese of Sokodé is a Latin Church see in central Togo, elevated to a diocese on 14 September 1955. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Lomé.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 14 September 1955
- Latin
- Sokoden(sis)
- Patron
- Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus
- Annuario code
- 001003084
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 153,021
- Population
- 1,136,000
- Catholic share
- 13.5%
- Priests
- 66
- Catholics per priest
- 2,319
- Extent
- 12,610 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 12
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
- Célestin-Marie Gaoua
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 Sainte-Thérèse-de-l'Enfant-Jésus, Sokodé stands in Sokodé, 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 Lomé
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Lomé.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of LoméLomé
- Diocese of AnéhoAného
- Diocese of DapaongDapaong
- Diocese of KpaliméKpalimé
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Seated in the city of Sokodé in Togo, this Roman Catholic diocese (Latin: Sokoden(sis)) belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Lomé.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Evêché, 300 B.P. 55, Sokodé, Togo
- Telephone
- 2550.02.16
- [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].