Diocese of Mbulu
Mbuluen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Mbulu, Tanzania
Latin rite diocese in Mbulu, Tanzania, established as an apostolic prefecture in 1943 and promoted to a diocese on March 25, 1953. It is a suffragan of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Arusha.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 25 March 1953
- Latin
- Mbuluen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001002204
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 242,698
- Population
- 924,462
- Catholic share
- 26.3%
- Priests
- 123
- Catholics per priest
- 1,973
- Extent
- 16,057 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 15
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
- Anthony Lagwen
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 Church of the Virgin Mary stands in Mbulu, 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 Arusha
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Arusha.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of ArushaArusha
- Diocese of MoshiMoshi
- Diocese of SameSame
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
The Tanzanian town of Mbulu is the seat of a Catholic diocese (Latin: Dioecesis Mbuluensis) within the ecclesiastical province of Arusha. The bishop's seat is the Cathedral Church of the Virgin Mary. By 2025, the Catholic share of the population had risen to 55%.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Bishop’s House, P.O. Box 49, Mbulu, Tanzania
- Telephone
- 784.725.792
- [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].