Diocese of Shinyanga
Shinyangaën(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Shinyanga, Tanzania
The Diocese of Shinyanga is a Latin Church diocese in Tanzania, established as the Apostolic Vicariate of Maswa in 1950 and erected as a diocese in 1956. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Mwanza and is led by Bishop Liberatus Sangu since 2015.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 9 August 1956
- Latin
- Shinyangaën(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001003046
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 284,590
- Population
- 2,001,893
- Catholic share
- 14.2%
- Priests
- 63
- Catholics per priest
- 4,517
- Extent
- 30,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 9.5
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
- Liberatus Sangu
- Born
- 19 February 1963
- Birthplace
- Mwazye
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
Mater Misericodiae Cathedral stands in Shinyanga, 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 Mwanza
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Mwanza.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of MwanzaMwanza
- Diocese of BariadiBariadi
- Diocese of BukobaBukoba
- Diocese of BundaBunda
- Diocese of GeitaGeita
- Diocese of KayangaKayanga
- Diocese of MusomaMusoma
- Diocese of Rulenge–NgaraRulenge–Ngara
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Situated in Shinyanga, Tanzania, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Shinyanga (Latin: Dioecesis Shinyangaënsis) belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Mwanza.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Bishop’s House, P.O. Box 47, Shinyanga, Tanzania
- Telephone
- e fax [028]276.30.40
- [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].