Diocese of Ziguinchor
Ziguinchoren(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Ziguinchor, Senegal
The Diocese of Ziguinchor is a Latin Church suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Dakar in the Casamance region of southern Senegal. It was a apostolic prefecture from 1939 and was erected as a diocese on 14 September 1955.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 14 September 1955
- Latin
- Ziguinchoren(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001000246
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 143,693
- Population
- 562,000
- Catholic share
- 25.6%
- Priests
- 107
- Catholics per priest
- 1,343
- Extent
- 7,339 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 20
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 Baptiste Valter Manga
- Born
- 18 June 1972
- Birthplace
- Oussouye
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 Saint-Antoine de Padoue stands in Ziguinchor, 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 Dakar
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Dakar.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of DakarDakar
- Diocese of KaolackKaolack
- Diocese of KoldaKolda
- Diocese of Saint-Louis du SénégalSaint-Louis du Sénégal
- Diocese of TambacoundaTambacounda
- Diocese of ThièsThiès
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
In Senegal, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ziguinchor (Latin: Ziguinchoren(sis), French: Diocèse catholique romain de Ziguinchor) has its seat in the city of Ziguinchor and forms part of the ecclesiastical province of Dakar.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Evêché, 64 Av. du Dr. Gabriel Carvalho, B.P. 23, Ziguinchor, Sénégal
- Telephone
- 33.991.26.13; fax 33.991.26.85
- [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].