Diocese of Kenge, Congo-Kinshasa

Continent: Eastern and Central Africa

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Kenge / Kengen(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Kinshasa

Depends on: Dicastery for Evangelisation

Celebrations

Liturgical Calendar (National) 📅

History

1957.07.05: Established as Apostolic Prefecture of Kenge / Kengen(sis) (Latin) (from Apostolic Vicariate of Kikwit and Apostolic Vicariate of Kisantu)
1963.07.06: Promoted as Diocese of Kenge / Kengen(sis) (Latin) (became suffragan of Léopoldville)

Present Prelates

Bishop (2018.03.31 – ...):

Bishop Jean-Pierre Kwambamba Masi (63)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Kenge (Roman Rite)

Bishop Jean-Pierre Kwambamba Masi (63)
(2018.03.31 – ...)

Bishop of Kenge (Congo-Kinshasa)

Born:	1960.08.09 (Ngi, Congo-Kinshasa)
Ordained Priest:	1986.08.17
Consecrated Bishop:	2015.06.07

Priest of Kenge (Congo-Kinshasa) (1986.08.17 – 2015.03.31)

Prelate of Honour of His Holiness (2009.07.21 – 2015.03.31)

Papal Master of Ceremonies of Office for the Liturgical Celebrations of the Supreme Pontiff (2009.09.02 – 2015.03.31)

Titular Bishop of Naratcata (2015.03.31 – 2018.03.31)

Auxiliary Bishop of Kinshasa (Congo-Kinshasa) (2015.03.31 – 2018.03.31)

Bishop of Kenge (Congo-Kinshasa) (2018.03.31 – ...)

Bishop Jean-Gaspard Mudiso Mundla, S.V.D. (83)
(1999.06.01 – 2018.03.31)

Bishop emeritus of Kenge (Congo-Kinshasa)

Born:	1940.12.23 (Kenge, Congo-Kinshasa)
Ordained Priest:	1968.12.08
Consecrated Bishop:	1998.04.19

Coadjutor Bishop of Kenge (Congo-Kinshasa) (1997.12.13 – 1999.06.01)

Bishop of Kenge (Congo-Kinshasa) (1999.06.01 – 2018.03.31)

Bishop Dieudonné M’Sanda Tsinda-Hata
(1974.04.25 – 1999.06.01)

Ut diligatis invicem

Born:	1935.07.25 (Congo-Kinshasa)
Ordained Priest:	1961.07.23
Consecrated Bishop:	1974.06.30
Died:	2001.10.24 († 66)

Bishop of Kenge (Congo-Kinshasa) (1974.04.25 – 1999.06.01)

Bishop Franz Hoenen, S.V.D.
(1963.07.06 – 1974.04.25)

Born:	1919.11.01 (Belgium)
Ordained Priest:	1948.08.08
Consecrated Bishop:	1963.10.20
Died:	1997.12.21 († 78)

Bishop of Kenge (Congo-Kinshasa) (1963.07.06 – 1974.04.25)

Prefects Apostolic of Kenge (Roman Rite)

Fr. Jean Van der Heyden, S.V.D.
(1957 – 1963)

Died:

1963

Prefect Apostolic of Kenge (Congo-Kinshasa) (1957 – 1963)

Former Prelates

Coadjutor Bishop: Bishop Jean-Gaspard Mudiso Mundla, S.V.D. (83) (1997.12.13 – 1999.06.01)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Cathédrale Bienheureuse Anwarite, Kenge, Kwango

Kisantu (↙), Kinshasa (←), Inongo (↑), Kikwit (→), Popokabaka (↓)

Statistics (2021.12.31)

Area: 34,385 km²

Population: 722,000 Catholics (59.4% of 1,216,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 36 parishes, 10 missions

Personnel: 99 priests (82 diocesan, 17 religious), 215 religious (36 brothers, 179 sisters), 68 seminarians