Diocese of Luiza, Congo-Kinshasa 🇨🇩 (original) (raw)

Celebrations

History

• 1967.09.26: Established as Diocese of Luiza / Lwiza / Ludovican(us) (Latin) (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Luluabourg and became suffragan of Luluabourg)
• 2022.03.25: Lost territory to establish Diocese of Tshilomba

Present Prelates

Bishop (2014.01.03 – ...):	Bishop Félicien Mwanama Galumbulula (63)

Ordinaries

Statistics (2021.12.31)

Area: 21,777 km²

Population: 1,055,000 Catholics (69.5% of 1,518,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 27 parishes, 2 missions

Personnel: 54 priests (45 diocesan, 9 religious), 265 religious (56 brothers, 209 sisters), 37 seminarians