Diocese of Wote
Voten(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Wote, Kenya
The Diocese of Wote is a Latin Church suffragan diocese in Kenya, erected on 22 July 2023 from territory of the Diocese of Machakos. The see became vacant on 25 March 2026 and is administered by Apostolic Administrator Simon Peter Kamomoe.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 22 July 2023
- Latin
- Voten(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001005116
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 388,946
- Population
- 987,653
- Catholic share
- 39.4%
- Priests
- 90
- Catholics per priest
- 4,322
- Extent
- 8,009 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 49
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
- Apostolic Administrator
- Simon Peter Kamomoe
- Born
- 26 November 1962
- Birthplace
- Gatundu
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 St. Joseph the Worker, Wote stands in Wote, 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 NakuruNakuru
- Diocese of NgongNgong
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- . . . . ., Kenya
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].