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Roman Catholic Diocese of Kenge

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Metropolitan
  
Kinshasa

Pope
  
Francis

Bishop
  
Gaspard Mudiso Mundla

Rite
  
Latin Rite

Area
  
34,385 km²

Population - Total - Catholics
  
(as of 2004) 768,996 380,863 (49.5%)

Country
  
Democratic Republic of the Congo

Ecclesiastical province
  
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kinshasa

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Kenge (Latin: Kengen(sis)) is a suffragan Latin diocese in the Ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Kinshasa.

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Its cathedral episcopal see is located in the city of Kenge, Bas-Congo, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Kongo Central province.

History

  • Established pn 5 July, 1957 as Apostolic Prefecture of Kenge (exempt missionary jurisdiction), on territory split off from the Apostolic Vicariate of Kikwit and the Apostolic Vicariate of Kisantu
  • Promoted on 6 July, 1963 as Diocese of Kenge

    • Ordinaries

    (all Roman Rite, so far Latin members of the Missionaries of the Divine Word, S.V.D.)

    Apostolic Prefect of Kenge
  • Fr. Jean Van der Heyden, S.V.D. (1957 – 1963)
    • Suffragan Bishops of Kenge
  • Jean Van der Heyden, S.V.D. (1957 - 1963)
  • François Hoenen, S.V.D. (6 July 1963 - 25 April 1974)
  • Dieudonné M'Sanda Tsinda-Hata (25 April 1974 - 1 June 1999)
  • Gaspard Mudiso Mundla, S.V.D. (1 June 1999 - ...), succeeding as former Coadjutor Bishop of Kenge (1997.12.13 – 1999.06.01)

    • References

    Roman Catholic Diocese of Kenge Wikipedia
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