Diocese of Kapsabet
Kapsabeten(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Kapsabet, Kenya
The Diocese of Kapsabet is a Latin rite see in western Kenya, erected by Pope Leo XIV on 10 July 2025 from the Diocese of Eldoret with John Kiplimo Lelei as its first bishop. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Kisumu.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 10 July 2025
- Latin
- Kapsabeten(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001005133
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 313,655
- Population
- 885,711
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 35.4%
- Priests
- 52
- Catholics per priest
- 6,032
- Extent
- 2,888 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 109
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
- John Kiplimo Lelei
- Born
- 15 August 1958
- Birthplace
- Soy
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
St. Peter Cathedral stands in Kapsabet, 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 Kisumu
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Kisumu.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of KisumuKisumu
- Diocese of BungomaBungoma
- Diocese of EldoretEldoret
- Diocese of Homa BayHoma Bay
- Diocese of KakamegaKakamega
- Diocese of KisiiKisii
- Diocese of KitaleKitale
- Diocese of LodwarLodwar
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- . . . . ., Kenya
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 references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.