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Suffragan diocese Bukoba, Tanzania

Diocese of Bukoba

Bukobaën(sis)

Latin Church

The Diocese of Bukoba is a Latin Church diocese in northwestern Tanzania, established as a diocese in 1960 from the earlier Apostolic Vicariate of Lower Kagera (1951). It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Mwanza and led by Bishop Jovitus Francis Mwijage, appointed in 2023.

On the map

Esri
The address the register holds for Mater Misericodiae Cathedral, in Bukoba, Tanzania.

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Established
1960
Catholics
521,256
Priests
139
Territory
8,608 km²

Parishes and churches

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

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The bishop

Bishop
Jovitus Francis Mwijage
Born
2 December 1966
Birthplace
Bukoba

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The cathedral

Mater Misericodiae Cathedral stands in Bukoba, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

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History

Bukoba, a town in Tanzania, gives its name to this Roman Catholic diocese (Latin: Dioecesis Bukobaënsis), which belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Mwanza.

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