Archdiocese of Kasama

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Archdiocese of Kasama
Basic data
Country Zambia
Diocesan bishop Ignatius Chama
founding 1913
surface 77,349 km²
Parishes 23 (2013 / AP 2014 )
Residents 1,290,000 (2013 / AP 2014 )
Catholics 769,000 (2013 / AP 2014 )
proportion of 59.6%
Diocesan priest 52 (2013 / AP 2014 )
Religious priest 16 (2013 / AP 2014 )
Catholics per priest 11,309
Friars 62 (2013 / AP 2014 )
Religious sisters 91 (2013 / AP 2014 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language English
cathedral Cathedral of St. John the Apostle
Suffragan dioceses Diocese of Mansa
Diocese of Mpika

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kasama ( Latin Archidioecesis Kasamaensis , English Archdiocese of Kasama ) is in Zambia situated Roman Catholic Archdiocese based in Kasama .

history

Pope Pius X. founded the Apostolic Vicariate Bangueolo on January 28, 1913 from cessions of territory from the Apostolic Vicariate Nyassa . On July 10, 1952, she took the name Vicariate Apostolic Kasama .

With the Apostolic Constitution Cum christiana fides she was raised to a diocese on April 25, 1959. With the bull Qui altissimi Dei on July 12, 1967, it was raised to the rank of metropolitan archbishopric. In November 1995 integrated four parishes that belonged to the diocese of Mpika.

It lost parts of its territory in favor of the establishment of the following dioceses:

Ordinaries

Vicars Apostolic of Bangueolo

Vicar Apostolic of Kasama

  • Marcel Daubechies MAfr (July 10, 1952 - April 25, 1959)

Bishops of Kasama

Archbishops of Kasama

statistics

year population priest Permanent deacons Religious Parishes
Catholics Residents % Total number
Diocesan priest

Religious priest
Catholics per
priest
Friars Religious sisters
1950 140.117 140.117 100.0 67 7th 60 2,091 71 35
1970 147,480 254,000 58.1 56 11 45 2,633 70 63
1980 161,000 298,000 54.0 42 10 32 3,833 49 49 14th
1990 238,475 433,592 55.0 53 19th 34 4,499 59 73 15th
1999 341,500 632,390 54.0 56 35 21st 6,098 39 77 18th
2000 420,000 803,000 52.3 57 39 18th 7,368 32 87 22nd
2001 438,350 827.090 53.0 61 42 19th 7.186 28 103 22nd
2002 438,350 827.090 53.0 63 44 19th 6,957 28 108 23
2003 448,329 877.630 51.1 68 49 19th 6,593 29 114 23
2004 592,886 1,038,954 57.1 73 52 21st 8,121 33 162 23
2006 643,000 1,063,000 60.5 78 60 18th 8,243 56 166 23
2007 651,000 1,078,000 60.3 78 59 19th 8,346 7th 36 162 23

See also

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