Diocese of Kahama, Tanzania

Continent: Eastern and Central Africa

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Kahama / Kahamaën(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Tabora

Depends on: Dicastery for Evangelisation

Celebrations

Liturgical Calendar (Universal) 📅

History

1983.11.11: Established as Diocese of Kahama / Kahamaën(sis) (Latin) (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Tabora and became suffragan of Tabora)

Present Prelates

Bishop (2022.06.23 – ...):

Bishop Christopher Ndizeye Nkoronko (54)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Kahama (Roman Rite)

Bishop Christopher Ndizeye Nkoronko (54)
(2022.06.23 – ...)

Bishop of Kahama (Tanzania)

Born:	1970.03.25 (Kalinzi, Tanzania)
Ordained Priest:	2001.07.05
Consecrated Bishop:	2022.09.04

Priest of Kigoma (Tanzania) (2001.07.05 – 2022.06.23)

Bishop of Kahama (Tanzania) (2022.06.23 – ...)

Bishop Ludovick Joseph Minde, ALCP/OSS (72)
(Apostolic Administrator 2019.12.02 – 2022.06.23)

Bishop Ludovick Joseph Minde, ALCP/OSS (72)
(2001.04.24 – 2019.12.02)

Bishop of Moshi (Tanzania)

Veni Sancte Spiritus

Born:	1952.12.09 (Kibosho, Tanzania)
Ordained Priest:	1986.06.26
Consecrated Bishop:	2001.08.05

Bishop of Kahama (Tanzania) (2001.04.24 – 2019.12.02)

Apostolic Administrator of Kahama (Tanzania) (2019.12.02 – 2022.06.23)

Bishop of Moshi (Tanzania) (2019.12.02 – ...)

Bishop Matthew Shija
(1983.11.11 – 2001.04.24)

Born:	1924.04.17 (Tanzania)
Ordained Priest:	1954.01.17
Consecrated Bishop:	1984.02.26
Died:	2015.12.09 († 91)

Bishop of Kahama (Tanzania) (1983.11.11 – 2001.04.24)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Cathedral of St. Charles Lwanga, Kahama, Shinyanga

Kigoma (↙), Rulenge–Ngara (↖), Geita (↑), Shinyanga (→), Tabora (↓)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 19,946 km²

Population: 723,000 Catholics (20.1% of 3,600,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 31 parishes

Personnel: 39 priests (24 diocesan, 15 religious), 88 religious (18 brothers, 70 sisters), 46 seminarians

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