Diocese of Bukoba
Bukobaën(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Bukoba, Tanzania
The Diocese of Bukoba is a Latin Church diocese in northwestern Tanzania, established as a diocese in 1960 from the earlier Apostolic Vicariate of Lower Kagera (1951). It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Mwanza and led by Bishop Jovitus Francis Mwijage, appointed in 2023.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 21 June 1960
- Latin
- Bukobaën(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001000978
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 521,256
- Population
- 870,048
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 59.9%
- Priests
- 139
- Catholics per priest
- 3,750
- Extent
- 8,608 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 61
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
- Jovitus Francis Mwijage
- Born
- 2 December 1966
- Birthplace
- Bukoba
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 Bukoba, 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 BundaBunda
- Diocese of GeitaGeita
- Diocese of KayangaKayanga
- Diocese of MusomaMusoma
- Diocese of Rulenge–NgaraRulenge–Ngara
- Diocese of ShinyangaShinyanga
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Bukoba, a town in Tanzania, gives its name to this Roman Catholic diocese (Latin: Dioecesis Bukobaënsis), which belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Mwanza.
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The see's own website · Wikipedia
Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.