Diocese of Wamba, Congo-Kinshasa

Continent: Eastern and Central Africa

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Wamba / Vambaën(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Kisangani

Depends on: Dicastery for Evangelisation

Celebrations

Liturgical Calendar (National) 📅

History

1949.03.10: Established as Apostolic Vicariate of Wamba / Vambaën(sis) (Latin) (from Apostolic Vicariate of Stanley Falls)
1959.11.10: Promoted as Diocese of Wamba / Vambaën(sis) (Latin) (became suffragan of Stanleyville)

Present Prelates

Bishop (2024.01.17 – ...):

Bishop Emmanuel Ngona Ngotsi, M. Afr. (65)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Wamba (Roman Rite)

Bishop Sosthène Ayikuli Udjuwa (61)
(Apostolic Administrator sede plena 2024.08.03 – 2024.09.15)

Bishop Emmanuel Ngona Ngotsi, M. Afr. (65)
(2024.01.17 – ...)

Bishop of Wamba (Congo-Kinshasa)

Born:	1960.01.01 (Bambu-Mines, Congo-Kinshasa)
Ordained Priest:	1990.08.22
Consecrated Bishop:	2024.09.15

Bishop of Wamba (Congo-Kinshasa) (2024.01.17 – ...)

Bishop Janvier Kataka Luvete (77)
(1996.11.08 – 2024.01.17)

Bishop emeritus of Wamba (Congo-Kinshasa)

Non nobis

Born:	1947.04.04 (Ngunda, Congo-Kinshasa)
Ordained Priest:	1974.08.18
Consecrated Bishop:	1997.06.14

Priest of Boma (Congo-Kinshasa) (1974.08.18 – 1996.11.08)

Bishop of Wamba (Congo-Kinshasa) (1996.11.08 – 2024.01.17)

Apostolic Administrator of Bunia (Congo-Kinshasa) (2002 – 2005.04.01)

Bishop Charles Kambale Mbogha, A.A. (later Archbishop)
(Apostolic Administrator 1995.12.06 – 1996.11.08)

Bishop Charles Kambale Mbogha, A.A. (later Archbishop)
(1990.06.11 – 1995.12.06)

Je me suis fait tout a tous

Born:	1942.11.04 (Congo-Kinshasa)
Ordained Priest:	1969.07.24
Consecrated Bishop:	1990.11.25
Died:	2005.10.09 († 62)

Bishop of Wamba (Congo-Kinshasa) (1990.06.11 – 1995.12.06)

Apostolic Administrator of Wamba (Congo-Kinshasa) (1995.12.06 – 1996.11.08)

Bishop of Isiro–Niangara (Congo-Kinshasa) (1995.12.06 – 2001.03.13)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Bukavu (Congo-Kinshasa) (2001.03.13 – 2005.10.09)

Bishop Gustave Olombe Atelumbu Musilamu
(1968.09.05 – 1990.06.11)

Born:	1927.05.01 (Congo-Kinshasa)
Ordained Priest:	1957.07.28
Consecrated Bishop:	1969.02.02
Died:	2011.02.17 († 83)

Bishop of Wamba (Congo-Kinshasa) (1968.09.05 – 1990.06.11)

Archbishop-elect Augustin Fataki Alueke
(Apostolic Administrator 1965 – 1968)

Bishop Joseph-Pierre-Albert Wittebols, S.C.I.
(1959.11.10 – 1964.11.26)

Servus Christi

Born:	1912.04.12 (Belgium)
Ordained Priest:	1937.07.11
Consecrated Bishop:	1949.06.16
Died:	1964.11.26 († 52)

Titular Bishop of Callipolis (1949.03.10 – 1959.11.10)

Vicar Apostolic of Wamba (Congo-Kinshasa) (1949.03.10 – 1959.11.10)

Bishop of Wamba (Congo-Kinshasa) (1959.11.10 – 1964.11.26)

Vicars Apostolic of Wamba (Roman Rite)

Bishop Joseph-Pierre-Albert Wittebols, S.C.I.
(1949.03.10 – 1959.11.10)

(see above)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Cathédrale Saint-Joseph, Wamba, Haut-Uélé

Kisangani (↙), Buta (↖), Bunia (→), Butembo–Beni (↘)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 68,000 km²

Population: 364,900 Catholics (34.7% of 1,052,780 total)

Pastoral Centres: 25 parishes

Personnel: 58 priests (36 diocesan, 22 religious), 79 religious (24 brothers, 55 sisters), 21 seminarians