Diocese of Tunduru–Masasi
Tunduruen(sis)-Masasien(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Tunduru–Masasi, Tanzania
The Diocese of Tunduru-Masasi is a Latin Church diocese in Tanzania, suffragan to the Archdiocese of Songea. It was established in 1986 from the suppressed Diocese of Nachingwea.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 17 October 1986
- Latin
- Tunduruen(sis)-Masasien(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001000018
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 90,740
- Population
- 669,854
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 13.5%
- Priests
- 35
- Catholics per priest
- 2,593
- Extent
- 22,730 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 4.0
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
- Filbert Felician Mhasi
- Born
- 30 November 1970
- Birthplace
- Biro
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 San Francisco Javier stands in Tunduru–Masasi, 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 Songea
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Songea.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of SongeaSongea
- Diocese of LindiLindi
- Diocese of MbingaMbinga
- Diocese of MtwaraMtwara
- Diocese of NjombeNjombe
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
In the extreme southern part of Tanzania, near the border with Mozambique and surrounded by the Selous Game Reserve, lies the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tunduru-Masasi (Latin: Dioecesis Tunduruensis-Masasiensis), located in Tunduru-Masasi within the ecclesiastical province of Songea. The diocese covers an area of 22,730 square kilometers, bordered to the East by the diocese of Mtwara, to the Northeast by the diocese of Lindi, to the South by Mozambique, and to the West by the Archdiocese of Songea. It now counts 24 local priests and 19 parishes.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- P.O. Box 240, Tunduru, Tanzania
- Telephone
- 622.127.622; fax 252.680.428
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.