Diocese of Lindi
Lindien(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Lindi, Tanzania
The Diocese of Lindi is a Latin Church diocese in southeastern Tanzania, established in 1986 from the suppressed Diocese of Nachingwea. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Songea, led by Bishop Wolfgang Pisa since 2022.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 17 October 1986
- Latin
- Lindien(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001002012
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 128,438
- Population
- 791,306
- Catholic share
- 16.2%
- Priests
- 33
- Catholics per priest
- 3,892
- Extent
- 56,060 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 2.3
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
- Wolfgang Pisa
- Born
- 6 July 1965
- Birthplace
- Karatu
- Institute
- ORDINE FRANCESCANO FRATI MINORI CAPPUCCINI
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 St. Andrew Kaggwa stands in Lindi, 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 Songea
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Songea.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of SongeaSongea
- Diocese of MbingaMbinga
- Diocese of MtwaraMtwara
- Diocese of NjombeNjombe
- Diocese of Tunduru–MasasiTunduru–Masasi
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Located in Lindi, Tanzania, within the ecclesiastical province of Songea, is the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lindi (Latin: Dioecesis Lindiensis).
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Bishop’s House, P.O. Box 435, Lindi, Tanzania
- Telephone
- 612.017.111
- [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].