Diocese of Bungoma
Bungomaën(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Bungoma, Kenya
The Diocese of Bungoma is a Latin Church diocese in western Kenya, established in 1987 from the Diocese of Kakamega. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Kisumu and led by Bishop Mark Kadima Wamukoya.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 27 April 1987
- Latin
- Bungomaën(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001000982
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 543,715
- Population
- 1,529,817
- Catholic share
- 35.5%
- Priests
- 85
- Catholics per priest
- 6,397
- Extent
- 4,840 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 112
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
- Mark Kadima
- Born
- 30 April 1964
- Birthplace
- Kakamega
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
Cathedral of Christ the King stands in Bungoma, 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 Kisumu
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Kisumu.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of KisumuKisumu
- Diocese of EldoretEldoret
- Diocese of Homa BayHoma Bay
- Diocese of KakamegaKakamega
- Diocese of KapsabetKapsabet
- Diocese of KisiiKisii
- Diocese of KitaleKitale
- Diocese of LodwarLodwar
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
In the city of Bungoma in Kenya sits the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bungoma (Latin: Bungomaën(sis)), a diocese within the ecclesiastical province of Kisumu.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- P.O. Box 617, 50200 Bungoma, Kenya
- Telephone
- [020]23.14.663
- [email protected]
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].