Diocese of Musoma
Musomen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Musoma, Tanzania
The Diocese of Musoma is a Latin rite suffragan see in the ecclesiastical province of Mwanza, Tanzania, established as an apostolic vicariate in 1946 and promoted to a diocese in 1957.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 5 July 1957
- Latin
- Musomen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001002319
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 250,000
- Population
- 1,400,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 17.9%
- Priests
- 36
- Catholics per priest
- 6,944
- Extent
- 29,549 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 8.5
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
- Michael Msonganzila
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 Santa María Madre de Dios stands in Musoma, 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 BukobaBukoba
- Diocese of BundaBunda
- Diocese of GeitaGeita
- Diocese of KayangaKayanga
- Diocese of Rulenge–NgaraRulenge–Ngara
- Diocese of ShinyangaShinyanga
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Musoma, in the ecclesiastical province of Mwanza in Tanzania, is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Musoma (Latin: Dioecesis Musomensis).
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Bishop’s House, P.O. Box 93, Musoma, Tanzania
- Telephone
- [028]2622.017
- aabbamus@gmail.com
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.