MOUNIDOU, APOSTOLIC PREFECTURE OF. — In central Africa. On 9 January 1947 the Apostolic Prefecture of Fort Lamy (q.v.) was erected and entrusted to the Jesuits, and its boundaries were adjusted with the Apostolic Prefecture of Berberati and the Apostolic Vicariate of Bangui.
After the publication of the bull erecting the Apostolic Prefecture of Fort Lamy and the decree altering the boundaries, doubts arose regarding the jurisdiction over certain territories. To regulate the boundaries more precisely and to promote the evangelization of the vast territory more effectively, on 17 May 1951 the region of Ma
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Yok-Beki was assigned to the Apostolic Prefecture of Garoua, where the Oblates of Mary Immaculate are present; the region of the Moyen-Chari remained with the Apostolic Prefecture of Fort Lamy; the region of the Logone was erected into the Apostolic Prefecture of Mounidou, with its capital in the region, and entrusted to the Capuchins. In this way the boundaries between the new Apostolic Prefecture of Mounidou and that of Berberati coincide with the limits between the colony of Chad and the colony of Ubangui-Shari.
The new prefecture has 460,000 inhabitants, of the Sara race, hitherto resistant to Islam and of sound morals, very little given to fetishism, and desirous of conversion. There are three stations, of which the most important are those of Mounidou and Doba, while that of Kelo is in its early stages. Catholics number 9,000, with a large number of catechumens. Protestants established themselves there before the Catholics.