Diocese of Kahama
Kahamaën(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Kahama, Tanzania
The Diocese of Kahama is a Latin Catholic diocese in Tanzania, established in 1983 from the Archdiocese of Tabora. A suffragan of Tabora, it has been led since 2022 by Bishop Christopher Ndizeye Nkoronko.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 11 November 1983
- Latin
- Kahamaën(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001001778
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 112,579
- Population
- 1,139,933
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 9.9%
- Priests
- 39
- Catholics per priest
- 2,887
- Extent
- 19,946 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 5.6
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
- Christopher Ndizeye Nkoronko
- Born
- 25 March 1970
- Birthplace
- Kalizi
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
Catedral de San Carlos Lwanga stands in Kahama, 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 Tabora
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Tabora.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of TaboraTabora
- Diocese of KigomaKigoma
- Diocese of MpandaMpanda
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Kahama in Tanzania is home to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kahama (Latin: Dioecesis Kahamaënsis), part of the ecclesiastical province of Tabora.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Bishop’s House, P.O. Box 400, Kahama, Tanzania
- Telephone
- 786.194.948
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.