Diocese of Shinyanga
Shinyangaën(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Shinyanga, Tanzania
The Diocese of Shinyanga is a Latin Church diocese in Tanzania, established as the Apostolic Vicariate of Maswa in 1950 and erected as a diocese in 1956. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Mwanza and is led by Bishop Liberatus Sangu since 2015.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 9 August 1956
- Latin
- Shinyangaën(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001003046
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 284,590
- Population
- 2,001,893
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 14.2%
- Priests
- 63
- Catholics per priest
- 4,517
- Extent
- 30,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 9.5
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
- Liberatus Sangu
- Born
- 19 February 1963
- Birthplace
- Mwazye
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
Mater Misericodiae Cathedral stands in Shinyanga, 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 MusomaMusoma
- Diocese of Rulenge–NgaraRulenge–Ngara
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Situated in Shinyanga, Tanzania, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Shinyanga (Latin: Dioecesis Shinyangaënsis) belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Mwanza.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Bishop’s House, P.O. Box 47, Shinyanga, Tanzania
- Telephone and fax
- [028]276.30.40
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.