Diocese of Mweka
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Mweka is a Latin suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of The Metropolitan of Kananga in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, it depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
Its cathedral episcopal see is the Cathédrale Saint-Martin, in the city of Mweka in Kasai Province.
Statistics
As per 2014, it pastorally served 346,580 Catholics on 21,700 km² in 14 parishes with 43 priests, 34 lay religious and 35 seminarians.History
- Established on 24 March 1953 as the Apostolic Prefecture of Mweka, on territory split off from the then Apostolic Vicariate of Luluabourg
- Promoted on 29 September 1964 as the Diocese of Mweka.
Ordinaries
;Apostolic Prefects of Mweka- Apostolic administrator Bernard Mels, Scheutists, while Titular Bishop of Belali & Apostolic Vicar of Luluabourg, later promoted that see's first Metropolitan Archbishop, then Archbishop-Bishop of Roman [Catholic Diocese of Lwiza|Lwiza], emeritate as Titular Archbishop of Pulcheriopolis, died 1992
- Marcel Evariste van Rengen, Josephites of Belgium
- Marcel Evariste Van Rengen, C.J.
- Apostolic administrator Emery Kabongo Kanundowi, while Archbishop-Bishop of Luebo ; previously Second Private Secretary of the Pope
- Gérard Mulumba Kalemba, died 15 April 2020
- Oscar Nkolo Kanowa, Scheutists