IPAMU, APOSTOLIC VICARIATE OF. - It is located in the central-western part of the Belgian Congo, and is entrusted to the Oblates of Mary Immaculate. On 13 April 1937, with portions of territory detached from the apostolic vicariates of Koango and of Upper Kassai (now Luluabourg), the apostolic prefecture of I. was erected, which on 12 February 1948 was elevated to an apostolic vicariate.

It has an area of 42,000 sq km and a population of over 360,000 inhabitants. In 1949 it counted 51,779 indigenous Catholics, 170 foreign Catholics, 8,554 catechumens, 5,000 Protestants, nearly 300,000 pagans, 45 missionaries, 4 lay brothers and 22 sisters, all foreigners, 7 major seminarians, a minor seminary with 45 students, 747 catechists, 8 female catechists, 8 nurses, 12 principal stations, 72 secondary ones, 12 churches, 472 chapels, 6 dispensaries with 408,902 annual consultations, a leprosarium with 60 inmates, numerous works of assistance for maternity and childhood, 600 elementary schools with 17,440 male pupils and 4,637 female pupils, a normal school with 80 students, a periodical printed in 100 copies. The percentage of practicing Catholics is high.

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BIBL.: AAS, 29 (1937), pp. 334-35; 40 (1948), pp. 359-60; MC, Rome 1950, pp. 141-42.

Carlo Corvo

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