Diocese of Arua
Aruaën(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Arua, Uganda
The Diocese of Arua is a Latin Rite see in northwestern Uganda, erected in 1958 and suffragan to the Archdiocese of Gulu. Its cathedral is the Basilica of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Lodonga.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 23 June 1958
- Latin
- Aruaën(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001000734
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 670,000
- Population
- 1,650,275
- Catholic share
- 40.6%
- Priests
- 163
- Catholics per priest
- 4,110
- Extent
- 10,561 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 63
of the people living within its bounds
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Sabino Ocan Odoki
- Born
- 8 August 1957
- Birthplace
- Gulu
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
Basilica of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Lodonga stands in Arua, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
The province of Gulu
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Gulu.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of GuluGulu
- Diocese of LiraLira
- Diocese of NebbiNebbi
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
In Uganda's ecclesiastical province of Gulu, the city of Arua gives its name to this Catholic diocese (Latin: Aruaën(sis)). After Bishop Frederick Drandua resigned, Pope Benedict XVI on 19 August 2009 named Sabino Ocan Odoki, Auxiliary Bishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Gulu, as Apostolic Administrator of the diocese until a substantive bishop could be appointed. On October 20, 2010 Odoki was himself named ordinary Bishop.
What is kept by invitation
The record above is published because it is public: what this see is, when it was erected, who holds its chair, and where it stands among its neighbours.
The working record is not. The chancery's address, telephone and email, the clergy of the see, and the hours of Mass, confession and adoration in the parishes within it are kept for members, and a person reads every request.
Sources
The see's own website · Wikipedia
This record is compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. On the method, see the keeping of the record. Whoever finds an error is asked, in charity, to write: [email protected].