Diocese of Morogoro
Morogoroën(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Morogoro, Tanzania
The Diocese of Morogoro is a Latin Church diocese in Tanzania, established as a diocese on 25 March 1953 from the earlier Apostolic Vicariate of Central Zanguebar (1906). It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Dar-es-Salaam and has been led by Bishop Lazarus Vitalis Msimbe, S.D.S., since 2021.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 25 March 1953
- Latin
- Morogoroën(sis)
- Patron
- Saint Patrick
- Annuario code
- 001002294
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 534,443
- Population
- 1,313,131
- Catholic share
- 40.7%
- Priests
- 389
- Catholics per priest
- 1,374
- Extent
- 43,380 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 12
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
- Lazarus Vitalis Msimbe
- Born
- 27 December 1963
- Birthplace
- Morogoro
- Institute
- SOCIETÀ DEL DIVIN SALVATORE (SALVATORIANI)
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
St. Patrick Cathedral stands in Morogoro, 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 Dar-es-Salaam
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Dar-es-Salaam.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of Dar-es-SalaamDar-es-Salaam
- Diocese of BagamoyoBagamoyo
- Diocese of IfakaraIfakara
- Diocese of MahengeMahenge
- Diocese of TangaTanga
- Diocese of ZanzibarZanzibar
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
The city of Morogoro in Tanzania is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Morogoro (Latin: Dioecesis Morogoroënsis), part of the ecclesiastical province of Dar-es-Salaam.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Bishop’s House, P.O. Box 640, Morogoro, Tanzania
- Telephone
- 717.788.919
- [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].