Diocese of Mafinga
Mafingen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Mafinga, Tanzania
The Diocese of Mafinga is a Latin Catholic diocese in Tanzania, erected on 22 December 2023 from the Diocese of Iringa as a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Mbeya. Its first bishop, Vincent Cosmas Mwagala, was installed in March 2024 at the Cathedral of the Assumption.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 22 December 2023
- Latin
- Mafingen(sis)
- Patron
- Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
- Annuario code
- 001005120
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 236,299
- Extent
- 11,016 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 21
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
- Vincent Cosmas Mwagala
- Born
- 11 December 1973
- Birthplace
- Makungu
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 Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mafinga stands in Mafinga, 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 Mbeya
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Mbeya.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of MbeyaMbeya
- Diocese of IringaIringa
- Diocese of SumbawangaSumbawanga
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Located in Mafinga within Tanzania's ecclesiastical province of Mbeya, this Roman Catholic diocese bears the Latin name Dioecesis Mafingensis and, in Swahili, Jimbo Katoliki Mafinga.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Catholic Diocese, P.O. Box 514, Mafinga, Tanzania
- Telephone
- 759.150.371
- [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].