Diocese of Bukoba
Bukobaën(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Bukoba, Tanzania
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.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 21 June 1960
- Latin
- Bukobaën(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001000978
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 521,256
- Population
- 870,048
- Catholic share
- 59.9%
- Priests
- 139
- Catholics per priest
- 3,750
- Extent
- 8,608 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 61
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
- Jovitus Francis Mwijage
- Born
- 2 December 1966
- Birthplace
- Bukoba
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
Mater Misericodiae Cathedral stands in Bukoba, 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 Mwanza
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Mwanza.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of MwanzaMwanza
- Diocese of BariadiBariadi
- Diocese of BundaBunda
- Diocese of GeitaGeita
- Diocese of KayangaKayanga
- Diocese of MusomaMusoma
- Diocese of Rulenge–NgaraRulenge–Ngara
- Diocese of ShinyangaShinyanga
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
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.
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].