Diocese of Kondoa
Kondoaën(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Kondoa, Tanzania
The Diocese of Kondoa is a Latin Church diocese in Tanzania corresponding to the Kondoa District, created on 12 March 2011 from the Diocese of Dodoma and suffragan to the Archdiocese of Dodoma. The see is sede vacante following Bishop Bernardin Mfumbusa's death in April 2026, with Wilbroad Henry Kibozi serving as apostolic administrator.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 12 March 2011
- Latin
- Kondoaën(sis)
- Patron
- Holy Spirit
- Annuario code
- 001001886
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 46,067
- Population
- 541,345
- Catholic share
- 8.5%
- Extent
- 13,210 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 3.5
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
- Apostolic Administrator
- Wilbroad Henry Kibozi
- Born
- 30 April 1973
- Birthplace
- Dodoma
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 the Holy Spirit stands in Kondoa, 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 Dodoma
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Dodoma.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of DodomaDodoma
- Diocese of SingidaSingida
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Suffragan to the Archdiocese of Dodoma, the diocese of Kondoa (in Latin: Dioecesis Kondoaënsis) is a see of the Roman Catholic Church. As of 2011 it numbered 46,067 baptized Catholics among 541,345 inhabitants. Bernardin Francis Mfumbusa was its most recent bishop.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- P.O. Box 440, Kondoa, Tanzania
- Telephone
- [026]23.600.39
- [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].