Apostolic Vicariate of The Congo

Apostolic Vicariate Of The Congo

The Roman Catholic Vicariate Apostolic of the Congo, the administrative region covering Catholic mission activity in the Congo area of Central Africa, was by the end of the nineteenth century already fragmented.

The first vicar apostolic appointed for Congo was in 1518, and the intended territory was within modern northern Angola.

Over a period of about eighty years, from 1880, the territory of the present Democratic Republic of Congo became divided into dioceses with their bishops, with apostolic vicariates being the intermediate stage.