The Roman Catholic Diocese of Berbérati (Latin: Berberaten(sis)) is a Latin suffragan diocese in the Ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archbishop of Bangui, both in the Central African Republic. However it remains under the authority of the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.

Its episcopal see is the cathedral in Berbérati, in the Mambéré-Kadéï Prefecture (southwest, formerly Haute-Sangha). The city also has the former cathedral dedicated to Saint Anna.

Statistics

As per 2014, it pastorally served 214,000 Catholics (48.3% of 443,000 total) on 44,000 km² in 16 parishes and 7 missions, with 30 priests (24 diocesan, 6 religious), 34 lay religious (10 brothers, 24 sisters) and 33 seminarians .

History

Ordinaries

(all Roman rite; so far all members of missionary congregations)

Apostolic Prefect of Berbérati
  • Father Pietro Alcantara da Habas, OFMCap (March 28, 1941 – death 1952)
Apostolic Vicar of Berbérati
  • Alphonse-Célestin-Basile Baud, OFMCap (April 10, 1954 – September 14, 1955 see below), Titular Bishop of Risinium (April 10, 1954 – September 14, 1955), French
Suffragan Bishops of Berbérati
  • Alphonse-Célestin-Basile Baud, OFMCap (see above September 14, 1955 – retired June 2, 1979, died 1981), French
  • Jérôme-Michel-Francis Martin, OFMCap (October 3, 1987 – retired June 17, 1991, died 2009), French
  • Agostino Giuseppe Delfino, OFMCap (June 17, 1991 – retired June 17, 2010), Italian
  • Dennis Kofi Agbenyadzi, SMA (May 14, 2012 - ...), first native ordinary

See also

References

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