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Roman Catholic Diocese Of Ebebiyín
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Ebibeyín ( la, Ebibeyinen(sis); officially, the Diocese "Virgin of Begoña, Mother of Christ" of Ebibeyín) is a diocese in the Ecclesiastical province (covering all Equatorial Guinea) 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 (69.0% of 229,140 total) on 3,943 km2 in 11 parishes with 25 priests (19 diocesan, 6 religious), 40 lay religious (12 brothers, 28 sisters) 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 establis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diocese
In Ecclesiastical polity, church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop. History In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided Roman province, provinces were administratively associated in a larger unit, the Roman diocese, diocese (Latin ''dioecesis'', from the Greek language, Greek term διοίκησις, meaning "administration"). Christianity was given legal status in 313 with the Edict of Milan. Churches began to organize themselves into Roman diocese, dioceses based on the Roman diocese, civil dioceses, not on the larger regional imperial districts. These dioceses were often smaller than the Roman province, provinces. Christianity was declared the Empire's State church of the Roman Empire, official religion by Theodosius I in 380. Constantine the Great, Constantine I in 318 gave litigants the right to have court cases transferred from the civil courts to the bishops. This situ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
