Diocese of Ebebiyín
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Ebibeyín is a diocese in the ecclesiastical province of Malabo, yet depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
Its cathedral episcopal see is located in the city of Ebibeyin, Kié-Ntem province, Región Continental.
Statistics
As per 2014, it pastorally served 158,000 Catholics on 3,943 km2 in 11 parishes with 25 priests, 40 lay religious and 19 seminarians.Shortly before the 2017 loss of daughter Mongomo, it had an area of 12,000 square miles, a total population of 204,000, a Catholic population of 164,000, 33 priests and 89 religious.
History
- Established on October 15, 1982 as Diocese of Ebibeyín, on territory split off from the Diocese of Bata.
- Lost territory on 2017.04.01 to establish the Diocese of Mongomo.
Episcopal ordinaries
;Suffragan Bishops of Ebibeyín- Apostolic Administrator Father Ildefonso Obama Obono Ildefonso Obama Obono, previously Apostolic Administrator of Bata
- Juan Matogo Oyana, Claretians, next Bishop of Bata
- Alfred Maria Oburu Asue, C.M.F.
- Apostolic Administrator Juan Matogo Oyana, C.M.F.
- Juan Nsue Edjang Maye, born in Mikomeseng in 1957, ordained a priest in 1995, until then pastor of the parishes of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and Our Lady of Help on the island of Bioko, Equatorial Guinea; next Metropolitan Archbishop of Malabo
- Miguel Angel Nguema Bee, Salesians, no previous prelature.