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Diocese of Tshilomba

Roman Catholic diocese in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 24, 2025
Entity authorityQ111363705 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Tshilomba (Latin: Dioecesis Tshilombana) is a diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

History

25 March 2022: the diocese was established from the Diocese of Luiza It is suffragan to the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Kananga. The cathedral is the parish church of Saint Jacques in Tshilomba.

Ordinaries

Bishops

Sebastien Kenda Ntumba (since 25 Mar 2022)

See also

Roman Catholicism in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

References

External links

"Diocese of Tshilomba". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Diocese of Tshilomba” is roman Catholic diocese in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Diocese, Tshilomba and Roman, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2022—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2022-03-25. For this dossier, Diocese, Tshilomba and Roman is the immediate research focus.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 24, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q111363705. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2022.

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This entry incorporates text from “Diocese of Tshilomba” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.