Diocese of Molegbe

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Diocese of Molegbe
Basic data
Country Democratic Republic of Congo
Metropolitan bishopric Archdiocese of Mbandaka-Bikoro
Diocesan bishop Dominique Bulamatari
Emeritus diocesan bishop Joseph Kesenge Wandangakongu
founding 1911
surface 79,000 km²
Parishes 22 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2009 )
Residents 3,761,732 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2009 )
Catholics 1,879,566 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2009 )
proportion of 50%
Diocesan priest 39 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2009 )
Religious priest 22 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2009 )
Catholics per priest 30,813
Friars 32 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2009 )
Religious sisters 66 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2009 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language French
cathedral Cathédrale Saint-Antoine-de-Padoue

The diocese Molegbe ( lat. : Dioecesis Molegbensis ) is in the Democratic Republic of Congo situated Roman Catholic diocese based in Molegbe .

history

The Diocese of Molegbe was established on April 7, 1911 by Pope Pius X from cession of territory of the Apostolic Vicariate Léopoldville as Apostolic Prefecture Ubanghi Belga . The Apostolic Prefecture Ubanghi Belga was founded on January 28, 1935 by Pope Pius XI. with the Apostolic Constitution Quaevis inter infideles raised to the Apostolic Vicariate .

On November 10, 1959, the Vicariate Apostolic Ubanghi Belga by Pope John XXIII. raised to the diocese of the Apostolic Constitution Cum parvulum and renamed the Diocese of Molegbe . It was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Mbandaka-Bikoro as a suffragan .

Ordinaries

Apostolic Prefect of Ubanghi Belga

Vicars Apostolic of Ubanghi Belga

Bishops of Molegbe

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pius XI: Const. Apost. Quaevis inter infideles , AAS 27 (1935), n.13, p. 433f.
  2. ↑ Ioannes XXIII: Const. Apost. Cum parvulum , AAS 52 (1960), n.6, p. 372ff.