Diocese of Mpanda
Mpanden(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Mpanda, Tanzania
The Diocese of Mpanda is a Latin rite suffragan see in the ecclesiastical province of Tabora, Tanzania, erected in 2000 from the Diocese of Sumbawanga. Its cathedral is the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Mpanda.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 23 October 2000
- Latin
- Mpanden(sis)
- Patron
- Immaculate Conception
- Annuario code
- 001002309
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 266,016
- Population
- 423,869
- Catholic share
- 62.8%
- Priests
- 24
- Catholics per priest
- 11,084
- Extent
- 46,346 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 5.7
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
- Eusebius Alfred Nzigilwa
- Born
- 14 August 1966
- Birthplace
- Mwanza
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 Immaculate Conception stands in Mpanda, 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 Tabora
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Tabora.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of TaboraTabora
- Diocese of KahamaKahama
- Diocese of KigomaKigoma
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- P.O. Box 408, Mpanda, Tanzania
- Telephone
- 782.620.293
- [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].