Archdiocese of Kisumu
Kisumuen(sis)
Metropolitan see · Latin Church · Kisumu, Kenya
The Archdiocese of Kisumu is the Latin metropolitan see for western Kenya, originating as the Apostolic Prefecture of Kavirondo in 1925 and raised to a metropolitan archdiocese on 21 May 1990. Its seat is St. Theresa's Cathedral in Kisumu, and it oversees eight suffragan dioceses.
The see
- Rank
- Metropolitan see
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 21 May 1990
- Latin
- Kisumuen(sis)
- Patron
- Saint Therese of Lisieux
- Annuario code
- 001001871
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 898,036
- Priests
- 76
- Catholics per priest
- 11,816
- Extent
- 4,616 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 195
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
- Archbishop
- Maurice Muhatia Makumba
- Born
- 19 May 1968
- Birthplace
- Lirhanda
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. Theresa's Cathedral stands in Kisumu, 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
This see is the metropolitan of its province.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of BungomaBungoma
- Diocese of EldoretEldoret
- Diocese of Homa BayHoma Bay
- Diocese of KakamegaKakamega
- Diocese of KapsabetKapsabet
- Diocese of KisiiKisii
- Diocese of KitaleKitale
- Diocese of LodwarLodwar
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Western Kenya's ecclesiastical province of Kisumu has as its Latin Metropolitan See the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kisumu (Latin: Kisumuen(sis)). Its archiepiscopal cathedral is St. Theresa's Cathedral in Kisumu, Kisumu County.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- P.O. Box 1728, 40100 Kisumu, Kenya
- Telephone
- 717.507.727; 738.151.685
- [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].