Jurisdiction: | Apostolic Vicariate |
Mongo | |
Country: | Chad |
Province: | Exempt, directly subject to the Holy See |
Area Km2: | 540,000 |
Population: | 2,121,000 |
Population As Of: | 2014 |
Catholics: | 5,312 |
Catholics Percent: | 0.3 |
Parishes: | 6 |
Denomination: | Catholic Church |
Sui Iuris Church: | Latin Church |
Rite: | Roman Rite |
Established: | 2001 |
Cathedral: | Cathédrale Saint-Ignace |
Patron: | Ignatius of Loyola |
Priests: | 11 |
Suffragan: | for one --> |
Archdeacon: | for one--> |
Map: | Mappa diocesi Mongo.png |
The Apostolic Vicariate of Mongo is a Latin Church pre-diocesan missionary jurisdiction or apostolic vicariate in Sahel-country Chad.[1]
It is immediately exempt to the Holy See, specifically the missionary Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, and is not part of any ecclesiastical province.
Its cathedral is the Cathédrale Saint-Ignace, dedicated to Ignatius of Loyola (founder and patron saint of the Society of Jesus), in the episcopal see of Mongo, in Guéra.
The jurisdiction was established on 1 December 2001 as the Apostolic Prefecture of Mongo from territory split off from the metropolitan Archdiocese of N'Djaména and from the Diocese of Sarh.
It was promoted on 3 June 2009 as the Apostolic Vicariate of Mongo, and is administered by a titular bishop who acts as ordinary.