Suffragan diocese Kayanga, Tanzania
Diocese of Kayanga
Kayangan(us)
Latin Church
The Diocese of Kayanga is a Latin Rite diocese in northwestern Tanzania, erected by Pope Benedict XVI in 2008 from the Diocese of Rulenge. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Mwanza, and its first and current bishop is Almachius Vincent Rweyongeza.
On the map
Every see on one map: browse the dioceses. Churches with recorded hours: find Mass times.
- Established
- 2008
- Catholics
- 450,000
- Priests
- 39
- Territory
- 675,476 km²
Parishes and churches
15 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
- Bugene ParishBugeneView parish
- Bugomora ParishBugomoraView parish
- Bushangaro ParishBushangaroView parish
- Businde ParishBusindeView parish
- Isingiro ParishIsingiroView parish
- Kaaro ParishKaaroView parish
- Kayanga Cathedral ParishKayangaView parish
- Kimiza ParishKimizaView parish
- Kiruruma ParishKirurumaView parish
- Mabira ParishMabiraView parish
- Murongo ParishMurongoView parish
- Ndorage ParishNdorageView parish
- Nyaishozi ParishNyaishoziView parish
- Nyakatuntu ParishNyakatuntuView parish
- Rwambaizi ParishRwambaiziView parish
This is our recorded coverage, not an official diocesan parish count. Confirm service times with the parish before travelling.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Almachius Vincent Rweyongeza
- Born
- 1 January 1956
- Birthplace
- Bushagara-Kamachumu
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The cathedral
St. George Cathedral, Karagwe stands in Kayanga, 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
Carved on August 14, 2008 from territory that had belonged to the Diocese of Rulenge, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kayanga (Latin: Dioecesis Kayangana) has its seat in the city of Kayanga within the Tanzanian ecclesiastical province of Mwanza. It maintains 11 parishes, two schools, two hospitals and a health clinic. Alongside its parish and administrative priests, three communities of women religious serve there: the Religious Congregation of the Apostles of Unlimited Love Sisters (Masista Mitume wa Upendo Upeo), the Franciscan Sisters of St. Bernadette, and the Sisters of St. Therese of the Child Jesus.