Diocese of Nakuru
Nakuren(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Nakuru, Kenya
The Diocese of Nakuru is a Latin Catholic see in Kenya's Rift Valley, erected in 1968 from the dioceses of Eldoret and Kisumu and the Archdiocese of Nairobi, to which it is suffragan. Its seat is Christ the King Cathedral in Nakuru.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 11 January 1968
- Latin
- Nakuren(sis)
- Patron
- Christ the King
- Annuario code
- 001002339
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 405,000
- Population
- 3,202,579
- Catholic share
- 12.6%
- Priests
- 180
- Catholics per priest
- 2,250
- Extent
- 18,149 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 22
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
- Cleophas Oseso Tuka
- Born
- 26 November 1967
- Birthplace
- Naivasha
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
Christ the King Cathedral stands in Nakuru, 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 Nairobi
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Nairobi.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of NairobiNairobi
- Diocese of KerichoKericho
- Diocese of KituiKitui
- Diocese of MachakosMachakos
- Diocese of NgongNgong
- Diocese of WoteWote
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Seated at Christ the King Cathedral in the city of Nakuru, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Nakuru (Latin: Dioecesis Nakurensis) is a Latin Church see in Kenya, suffragan to the Archdiocese of Nairobi within that ecclesiastical province. Its territory spans the administrative counties of Nakuru and Baringo, an area of 18,149 km². As of 2026 the diocese counts 62 parishes and 3 missions, 180 priests (122 diocesan and 58 religious), 395 members of religious orders, and 23 seminarians. It also holds the National Shrine of Our Lady of Africa at Subukia.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Bishop’s House, P.O. Box 938, 20100 Nakuru, Kenya
- Telephone
- 721.492.544; fax [051]2212.844
- [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].