Diocese of Kayanga
Kayangan(us)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Kayanga, Tanzania
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.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 14 August 2008
- Latin
- Kayangan(us)
- Annuario code
- 001001824
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 450,000
- Population
- 675,476
- Catholic share
- 66.6%
- Extent
- 675,476 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.7
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
- Almachius Vincent Rweyongeza
- Born
- 1 January 1956
- Birthplace
- Bushagara-Kamachumu
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. 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.
The province of Mwanza
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Mwanza.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of MwanzaMwanza
- Diocese of BariadiBariadi
- Diocese of BukobaBukoba
- Diocese of BundaBunda
- Diocese of GeitaGeita
- Diocese of MusomaMusoma
- Diocese of Rulenge–NgaraRulenge–Ngara
- Diocese of ShinyangaShinyanga
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
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.
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 chancery's address, telephone and email, 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
The see's own website · Wikipedia
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].