Diocese of Kahama
Kahamaën(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Kahama, Tanzania
The Diocese of Kahama is a Latin Catholic diocese in Tanzania, established in 1983 from the Archdiocese of Tabora. A suffragan of Tabora, it has been led since 2022 by Bishop Christopher Ndizeye Nkoronko.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 11 November 1983
- Latin
- Kahamaën(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001001778
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 112,579
- Population
- 1,139,933
- Catholic share
- 9.9%
- Priests
- 39
- Catholics per priest
- 2,887
- Extent
- 19,946 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 5.6
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
- Christopher Ndizeye Nkoronko
- Born
- 25 March 1970
- Birthplace
- Kalizi
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
de San Carlos Lwanga stands in Kahama, 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 Tabora
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Tabora.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of TaboraTabora
- Diocese of KigomaKigoma
- Diocese of MpandaMpanda
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Kahama in Tanzania is home to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kahama (Latin: Dioecesis Kahamaënsis), part of the ecclesiastical province of Tabora.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Bishop’s House, P.O. Box 400, Kahama, Tanzania
- Telephone
- 786.194.948
- [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].