Roman Catholic Diocese of Kenge

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

Diocese of Kenge Dioecesis Kengensis
Location
Country	Democratic Republic of the Congo
Metropolitan	Kinshasa
Statistics
Area	34,385 km2 (13,276 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2004) 768,996 380,863 (49.5%)
Information
Rite	Latin Rite
Cathedral	Cathedral of Blessed Anwarite
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Jean-Pierre Kwambamba Masi
Bishops emeritus	Gaspard Mudiso Mundla, S.V.D.

Its cathedral and episcopal see is the Cathedral of Blessed Anwarite (French: Cathédrale Bienheureuse Anwarite) 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

Bishops

Ordinaries

(all Roman Rite; to March 31, 2018 all but one were 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

• 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 - 31 March 2018)), succeeding as former Coadjutor Bishop of Kenge (1997.12.13 – 1999.06.01)
• Jean-Pierre Kwambamba Masi (31 March 2018 - ...), succeeding as former Auxiliary Bishop of Kinshasa (2015.03.31 - 2018.03.31)

Coadjutor bishop

• Gaspard Mudiso Mundla, S.V.D. (1997–1999)

Other priest of this diocese who became bishop

• Bernard Marie Fansaka Biniama, appointed Bishop of Popokabaka in 2020

See also

• Roman Catholicism in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Source and External links

• GCatholic.org, with incumbent biography links
• Catholic Hierarchy