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.
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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.
- Nshamba ParishNshambaView parish
- Rubya ParishRubyaView parish
- Ruhanga ParishRuhangaView parish
- Rukindo ParishRukindoView parish
- Rutabo ParishRutaboView parish
- Rwamishenye ParishRwamishenyeView parish
This is our recorded coverage, not an official diocesan parish count. Confirm service times with the parish before travelling.
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.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
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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