Diocese of Bagamoyo
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Bagamoyo, Tanzania
The Diocese of Bagamoyo is a Latin Church diocese in Tanzania, erected on 7 March 2025 from the Archdiocese of Dar-es-Salaam and the Diocese of Morogoro. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Dar-es-Salaam, with Bishop Stephano Lameck Musomba, O.S.A., as its first bishop.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 7 March 2025
- Patron
- Immaculate Heart of Mary
- Annuario code
- 001005130
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 92,345
- Population
- 459,596
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 20.1%
- Priests
- 45
- Catholics per priest
- 2,052
- Extent
- 10,345 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 8.9
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
- Stephano Lameck Musomba, O.S.A.
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
Immaculate Heart of Mary Cathedral, Bagamoyo stands in Bagamoyo, 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 IfakaraIfakara
- Diocese of MahengeMahenge
- Diocese of MorogoroMorogoro
- Diocese of TangaTanga
- Diocese of ZanzibarZanzibar
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
In Tanzania, the city of Bagamoyo is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bagamoyo (Latin: Dioecesis Bagamoyensis), which lies within the ecclesiastical province of Dar-es-Salaam.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- . . . . ., Tanzania
This see keeps no website of its own, so the address of its diocesan offices 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.
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Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.