Diocese of Dedza
Diocese of Dedza | |
Basic data | |
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Country | Malawi |
Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Lilongwe |
Diocesan bishop | Sedis vacancy |
founding | April 29, 1956 |
surface | 4,250 km² |
Parishes | 16 (2013 / AP 2014 ) |
Residents | 1,380,000 (2013 / AP 2014 ) |
Catholics | 432,000 (2013 / AP 2014 ) |
proportion of | 31.3% |
Diocesan priest | 42 (2013 / AP 2014 ) |
Religious priest | 8 (2013 / AP 2014 ) |
Catholics per priest | 8,640 |
Friars | 31 (2013 / AP 2014 ) |
Religious sisters | 97 (2013 / AP 2014 ) |
rite | Roman rite |
Liturgical language | English |
The Bistum Dedza ( latin Dioecesis Dedzaensis ) is in Malawi preferred Roman Catholic diocese based in Dedza .
history
The diocese of Dedza was on April 29, 1956 by Pope Pius XII. established with the Apostolic Constitution Etsi cotidie from assignments of territory by the Apostolic Vicariates Likuni and Zomba as Apostolic Vicariate Dedza . On April 25, 1959, the Apostolic Vicariate Dedza was by Pope John XXIII. raised to a diocese with the Apostolic Constitution Cum christiana fides and subordinated to the Archdiocese of Blantyre as a suffragan . On February 9, 2011, the Diocese of Dedza was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Lilongwe as a suffragan.
Ordinaries
Vicars Apostolic of Dedza
- Cornelius Chitsulo , 1956-1959
Bishops of Dedza
- Cornelius Chitsulo, 1959-1984
- Gervazio Moses Chisendera , 1984-2000
- Rémi Sainte-Marie MAfr , 2000–2006, then Coadjutor Bishop of Lilongwe
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Emmanuele Kanyama , 2007-2018
- Sedis vacancy since February 17, 2018
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Pius XII: Const. Apost. Etsi cotidie , AAS 48 (1956), n.13, pp. 652f.
- ↑ Ioannes XXIII: Const. Apost. Cum christiana fides , AAS 51 (1959), n.14-15, pp. 793ff.