Diocese of Port Victoria

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Diocese of Port Victoria
Basic data
Country Seychelles
Ecclesiastical province Immediate
Diocesan bishop Denis Wiehe CSSp
Vicar General Edwin Mathiot
founding 1892
surface 455 km²
Parishes 20 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Residents 93,144 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Catholics 70,976 (2016 / AP 2017 )
proportion of 76.2%
Diocesan priest 8 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Religious priest 16 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Catholics per priest 2,957
Permanent deacons 1 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Friars 26 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Religious sisters 55 (2016 / AP 2017 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language French
cathedral Cathédrale de l'Immaculée-Conception de Victoria
address PO Box 43, Olivier Maradan Str., Port Victoria, Mahe, Seychelles
Website http://dioceseportvictoria.org/old_site/index.html

The Diocese of Port Victoria ( French Diocèse de Port-Victoria , Latin Dioecesis Portus Victoriae or Dioesesis Seychellarum ) is a diocese of the Roman Catholic Church based in Victoria .

history

The diocese goes from the 1852 by Pope Pius IX. established Apostolic Prefecture . In 1880 Pope Leo XIII raised the prefecture to the Apostolic Vicariate and on July 14, 1892 to the diocese. The Cathédrale de l'Immaculée-Conception de Victoria , the episcopal see, was built in 1874.

Ordinaries

Source:

Apostolic Prefects

Vicars Apostolic

Bishops

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Entry on the Diocese of Port Victoria on gcatholic.org (English)
  2. ↑ a b Entry on the Diocese of Port Victoria on catholic-hierarchy.org (English)