Diocese of Kinkala, Congo-Brazzaville

Continent: Eastern and Central Africa

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Kinkala / Kinkalan(us) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Brazzaville

Depends on: Dicastery for Evangelisation

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Celebrations

Liturgical Calendar (Universal) 📅

History

1987.10.03: Established as Diocese of Kinkala / Kinkalan(us) (Latin) (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Brazzaville and became suffragan of Brazzaville)

Present Prelates

Bishop (2020.03.05 – ...):

Bishop Ildevert Mathurin Mouanga (58)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Kinkala (Roman Rite)

Bishop Ildevert Mathurin Mouanga (58)
(2020.03.05 – ...)

Bishop of Kinkala (Congo-Brazzaville)

Born:	1966.05.27 (Hamon, Congo-Brazzaville)
Ordained Priest:	1998.08.16
Consecrated Bishop:	2020.06.28

Priest of Kinkala (Congo-Brazzaville) (1998.08.16 – 2020.03.05)

Bishop of Kinkala (Congo-Brazzaville) (2020.03.05 – ...)

Bishop Louis Portella Mbuyu (82)
(2001.10.16 – 2020.03.05)

Bishop emeritus of Kinkala (Congo-Brazzaville)

Ite ad Joseph

Born:	1942.07.28 (Pointe-Noire, Congo-Brazzaville)
Ordained Priest:	1967.12.31
Consecrated Bishop:	2002.01.06

Priest of Pointe-Noire (Congo-Brazzaville) (1967.12.31 – 2001.10.16)

Bishop of Kinkala (Congo-Brazzaville) (2001.10.16 – 2020.03.05)

President of Episcopal Conference of Congo (2006 – 2015.04.25)

Apostolic Administrator of Owando (Congo-Brazzaville) (2008.10 – 2011.02.11)

First Vice-President of Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (2013.09 – 2016.07.24)

Bishop Anatole Milandou (78) (later Archbishop)
(1987.10.03 – 2001.01.23)

Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Brazzaville (Congo-Brazzaville)

Ministrare non ministrari

Born:	1946.03.18 (Nsamouna, Congo-Brazzaville)
Ordained Priest:	1974.06.23
Consecrated Bishop:	1983.08.28

Priest of Brazzaville (Congo-Brazzaville) (1974.06.23 – 1983.07.22)

Titular Bishop of Capra (1983.07.22 – 1987.10.03)

Auxiliary Bishop of Brazzaville (Congo-Brazzaville) (1983.07.22 – 1987.10.03)

Bishop of Kinkala (Congo-Brazzaville) (1987.10.03 – 2001.01.23)

President of Association of Episcopal Conferences of the Central Africa Region (1997 – 2000)

President of Episcopal Conference of Congo (1997 – 2003)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Brazzaville (Congo-Brazzaville) (2001.01.23 – 2021.11.21)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Cathédrale Sainte-Monique, Kinkala, Pool

Boma (↙), Nkayi (←), Gamboma (↑), Brazzaville (→), Kisantu (↘), Matadi (↓)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 20,000 km²

Population: 90,180 Catholics (57.2% of 157,720 total)

Pastoral Centres: 17 parishes

Personnel: 35 priests (diocesan), 28 religious (13 brothers, 15 sisters), 23 seminarians