Diocese of Machakos
Machakosen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Machakos, Kenya
The Diocese of Machakos is a Latin Catholic diocese in Kenya, erected on 29 May 1969 from the Archdiocese of Nairobi, to which it is suffragan. Bishop Norman King'oo Wambua remains the ordinary, with Bishop Joseph Maluki Mwongela appointed coadjutor in January 2026.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 29 May 1969
- Latin
- Machakosen(sis)
- Patron
- Our Lady of Lourdes
- Annuario code
- 001002093
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 610,150
- Population
- 1,421,932
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 42.9%
- Priests
- 134
- Catholics per priest
- 4,553
- Extent
- 15,183 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 40
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
- Norman King'oo Wambua
- Born
- 1 January 1952
- Birthplace
- Kathiani
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 Our Lady of Lourdes, Machakos stands in Machakos, 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 NakuruNakuru
- Diocese of NgongNgong
- Diocese of WoteWote
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
In Kenya's ecclesiastical province of Nairobi, the Town of Machakos is the seat of a Catholic diocese (Latin: Machakosen(sis)).
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Bishop’s Residence, P.O. Box 344, 90100 Machakos, Kenya
- Telephone
- [044]20.21.554
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.