Diocese of Bagamoyo
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Bagamoyo, Tanzania
The Diocese of Bagamoyo is a Latin Church diocese in Tanzania, erected on 7 March 2025 from the Archdiocese of Dar-es-Salaam and the Diocese of Morogoro. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Dar-es-Salaam, with Bishop Stephano Lameck Musomba, O.S.A., as its first bishop.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 7 March 2025
- Patron
- Immaculate Heart of Mary
- Annuario code
- 001005130
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 92,345
- Population
- 459,596
- Catholic share
- 20.1%
- Extent
- 10,345 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 8.9
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
- Stephano Lameck Musomba, O.S.A.
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
Immaculate Heart of Mary Cathedral, Bagamoyo stands in Bagamoyo, 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 Dar-es-Salaam
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Dar-es-Salaam.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of Dar-es-SalaamDar-es-Salaam
- Diocese of IfakaraIfakara
- Diocese of MahengeMahenge
- Diocese of MorogoroMorogoro
- Diocese of TangaTanga
- Diocese of ZanzibarZanzibar
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
In Tanzania, the city of Bagamoyo is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bagamoyo (Latin: Dioecesis Bagamoyensis), which lies within the ecclesiastical province of Dar-es-Salaam.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- . . . . ., Tanzania
This see keeps no website of its own, so its chancery is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.
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 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
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].