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Diocese of

Inongo

Congo-Kinshasa

Continent: Eastern and Central Africa

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Area: 100,000 km²

Population: 737,000 Catholics (64.1% of 1,150,000 total) (2015)

Ecclesiastical Province: Kinshasa

Depends on: Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples

Statistics: 23 parishes, 65 priests (63 diocesan, 2 religious), 147 lay religious (7 brothers, 140 sisters), 51 seminarians (2015)

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History

1953.06.29: Established as Apostolic Vicariate of Inongo / Inongoën(sis) (Latin) (from Apostolic Vicariate of Léopoldville)
1959.11.10: Promoted as Diocese of Inongo / Inongoën(sis) (Latin)
1975.04.12: Gained territory from the suppressed Diocese of Bikoro

Special Churches

Cathedral: Cathédrale Saint-Albert, Inongo, Bandundu

Present Prelates

Bishop (2005.07.27 – ...):

Bishop Philippe Nkiere Keana, C.I.C.M. (79)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Inongo (Roman Rite)

Bishop Philippe Nkiere Keana, C.I.C.M. (79)
(2005.07.27 – ...)

Bishop of Inongo (Congo-Kinshasa)

Regnat Christus Dominus

Born:	1938.02.21 (Congo-Kinshasa)
Ordained Priest:	1965.08.02
Consecrated Bishop:	1992.01.06

Coadjutor Bishop of Bondo (Congo-Kinshasa) (1991.04.15 – 1992.11.13)

Bishop of Bondo (Congo-Kinshasa) (1992.11.13 – 2005.07.27)

Bishop of Inongo (Congo-Kinshasa) (2005.07.27 – ...)

Bishop Léon Lesambo Ndamwize (88)
(1967.06.12 – 2005.07.27)

Bishop emeritus of Inongo (Congo-Kinshasa)

Born:	1929.06.21 (Congo-Kinshasa)
Ordained Priest:	1956.07.21
Consecrated Bishop:	1967.10.15

Bishop of Inongo (Congo-Kinshasa) (1967.06.12 – 2005.07.27)

President of National Episcopal Conference of Congo (1970 – 1975)

Bishop Jan van Cauwelaert, C.I.C.M.
(1959.11.10 – 1967.06.12)

Born:	1914.04.12 (Belgium)
Ordained Priest:	1939.08.06
Consecrated Bishop:	1954.03.25
Died:	2016.08.18 († 102)

Titular Bishop of Metropolis in Asia (1954.01.06 – 1959.11.10)

Vicar Apostolic of Inongo (Congo-Kinshasa) (1954.01.06 – 1959.11.10)

Bishop of Inongo (Congo-Kinshasa) (1959.11.10 – 1967.06.12)

Titular Bishop of Uccula (1967.06.12 – 1976.10.12)

Vicars Apostolic of Inongo (Roman Rite)

Bishop Jan van Cauwelaert, C.I.C.M.
(1954.01.06 – 1959.11.10)

(see above)

Former Prelates

Auxiliary Bishop: Bishop Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya (77) (later Cardinal) (1980.02.13 – 1981.04.07)

as of 2017.09.25

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