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Apostolic vicariate Awasa, Ethiopia

Diocese of Awasa

Avasan(us)

Latin Church

Awasa is a Latin Church Apostolic Vicariate in central Ethiopia, immediately subject to the Holy See, with its cathedral in Awasa (Hawassa). It is led by Vicar Apostolic Merhakristos Gobezayehu Getachew Yilma.

On the map

Esri
The address the register holds for Kidane Mehret Cathedral, Awasa, in Awasa, Ethiopia.

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Established
1937
Catholics
279,792
Priests
48
Territory
75,000 km²

Parishes and churches

20 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.

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The bishop

Bishop
Merhakristos Gobezayehu Getachew Yilma

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The cathedral

Kidane Mehret Cathedral, Awasa stands in Awasa, 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.

History

On the shores of Lake Awasa in the Great Rift Valley of central Ethiopia, the Kidane Mehret Cathedral in the city of Awasa serves as the episcopal see of the Apostolic Vicariate of Awasa (Latin: Vicariatus Apostolicus Avasanus). The vicariate is exempt, belonging to no ecclesiastical province and depending directly on the Holy See, notably the Roman missionary Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.