Diocese of Maralal
Maralalen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Maralal, Kenya
The Diocese of Maralal is a Latin Church diocese in Kenya covering Samburu County. It was erected on 15 June 2001 from the Diocese of Marsabit and is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Nyeri.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 15 June 2001
- Latin
- Maralalen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001002158
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 12
- Population
- 160,000
- Catholic share
- 0.0%
- Priests
- 37
- Catholics per priest
- 0
- Extent
- 20,809 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.0
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
- Hieronymus Joya
- Born
- 17 April 1965
- Birthplace
- Asinge
- Institute
- ISTITUTO MISSIONI CONSOLATA (I.M.C.)
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 Sts. Peter and Paul stands in Maralal, 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 Nyeri
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Nyeri.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of NyeriNyeri
- Diocese of EmbuEmbu
- Diocese of MarsabitMarsabit
- Diocese of MeruMeru
- Diocese of MurangaMuranga
- Diocese of NyahururuNyahururu
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
In Kenya's ecclesiastical province of Nyeri, the city of Maralal is the seat of a Catholic diocese of the same name (Latin: Dioecesis Maralalensis).
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Bishop's House, Sanctuary Rd., P.O. Box 350, 20600 Maralal, Kenya
- Telephone
- 772.202.777
- [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].