Diocese of Kapsabet

Kapsabeten(sis)

Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Kapsabet, Kenya

The Diocese of Kapsabet is a Latin rite see in western Kenya, erected by Pope Leo XIV on 10 July 2025 from the Diocese of Eldoret with John Kiplimo Lelei as its first bishop. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Kisumu.

The see

Rank: Suffragan diocese
Tradition: Latin Church
Erected: 10 July 2025
Latin: Kapsabeten(sis)
Annuario code: 001005133

The bishop

Bishop: John Kiplimo Lelei
Born: 15 August 1958
Birthplace: Soy

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

St. Peter Cathedral stands in Kapsabet, 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:

On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.

How to reach it

Chancery: . . . . ., Kenya

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.

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Sources

Compiled from the published 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].