Diocese of Bambari


The Diocese of Bambari is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or diocese of the Catholic Church in the Central African Republic. The diocese is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Bangui, which covers the Central African Republic, but depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
The diocese's episcopal see is Bambari. Its cathedral and is Cathédrale Saint Joseph, dedicated to Saint Joseph, in Bambari, Ouaka.
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History

Established on December 18, 1965, as Diocese of Bambari, on territory split off from its Metropolitan, the Archdiocese of Bangui.

Statistics

, it pastorally served 104,129 Catholics on 173,000 km² in 14 parishes and 4 missions with 25 priests, 22 lay religious and 7 seminarians.

Bishops

Apostolic Administrators

  1. Apostolic administrator Joachim N’Dayen while Archbishop of Bangui, President of Central African Episcopal Conference, later President of Association of Episcopal Conferences of the Central Africa Region ; previously Titular Archbishop of Culusi as Coadjutor Archbishop of Bangui
  2. Apostolic Administrator Father Michel Marie Joseph Maître, Spiritans

Bishops

  1. Michel Marie Joseph Maître, C.S.Sp.
  2. Jean-Claude Rembanga
  3. Édouard Mathos, also President of Central African Episcopal Conference ; previously Titular Bishop of Giufi, first as Auxiliary Bishop of Diocese of Bossangoa, then as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Bangui
  4. Bertrand Guy Richard Appora-Ngalanibé, Dominican Order, succeeding as previous coadjutor-bishop

Coadjutor bishops

  • Jean-Claude Rembanga
  • Bertrand Guy Richard Appora-Ngalanibé, O.P.