Diocese of Kigoma
Kigomaën(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Kigoma, Tanzania
The Diocese of Kigoma is a Latin Catholic see in western Tanzania, originating as an apostolic vicariate in 1946 and erected as a diocese in 1953. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Tabora, with its seat at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Victory in Kigoma.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 25 March 1953
- Latin
- Kigomaën(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001001851
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 647,528
- Population
- 1,680,009
- Catholic share
- 38.5%
- Priests
- 63
- Catholics per priest
- 10,278
- Extent
- 42,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 15
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
- Joseph Mlola
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 Our Lady of Victory stands in Kigoma, 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 KahamaKahama
- Diocese of MpandaMpanda
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
In Tanzania's ecclesiastical province of Tabora lies the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kigoma (Latin: Dioecesis Kigomaënsis), seated in Kigoma. The see fell vacant (sede vacante) when Pope Benedict XVI, on Tuesday, June 26, 2012, named Bishop Protase Rugambwa an Archbishop ad personam, granting him the personal title of archbishop along with the offices of Deputy Secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples and President of the Pontifical Mission Societies.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Bishop’s House, P.O. Box 71, Kigoma, Tanzania
- Telephone
- e fax [028]280.31.15; fax 280.20.43
- [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].