Diocese of Maralal
Maralalen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Maralal, Kenya
The Diocese of Maralal is a Latin Church diocese in Kenya covering Samburu County. It was erected on 15 June 2001 from the Diocese of Marsabit and is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Nyeri.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 15 June 2001
- Latin
- Maralalen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001002158
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 12
- Population
- 160,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 0.0%
- Priests
- 37
- Catholics per priest
- 0
- Extent
- 20,809 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.0
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
- Hieronymus Joya
- Born
- 17 April 1965
- Birthplace
- Asinge
- Institute
- ISTITUTO MISSIONI CONSOLATA (I.M.C.)
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 Sts. Peter and Paul stands in Maralal, 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 Nyeri
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Nyeri.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of NyeriNyeri
- Diocese of EmbuEmbu
- Diocese of MarsabitMarsabit
- Diocese of MeruMeru
- Diocese of MurangaMuranga
- Diocese of NyahururuNyahururu
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
In Kenya's ecclesiastical province of Nyeri, the city of Maralal is the seat of a Catholic diocese of the same name (Latin: Dioecesis Maralalensis).
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Bishop's House, Sanctuary Rd., P.O. Box 350, 20600 Maralal, Kenya
- Telephone
- 772.202.777
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.