Diocese of Kotido, Uganda

Continent: Eastern and Central Africa

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Kotido / Kotidoën(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Tororo

Depends on: Dicastery for Evangelisation

Celebrations

Liturgical Calendar (National) 📅

History

1991.05.20: Established as Diocese of Kotido / Kotidoën(sis) (Latin) (from Diocese of Moroto and became suffragan of Kampala)
1999.01.02: Became suffragan of Tororo

Present Prelates

Bishop (2022.10.25 – ...):

Bishop Dominic Eibu, M.C.C.J. (54)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Kotido (Roman Rite)

Bishop Dominic Eibu, M.C.C.J. (54)
(2022.10.25 – ...)

Bishop of Kotido (Uganda)

Console my people

Born:	1970.04.30 (Lwala, Uganda)
Ordained Priest:	2002.08.15
Consecrated Bishop:	2023.01.14

Bishop of Kotido (Uganda) (2022.10.25 – ...)

Bishop Giuseppe Filippi, M.C.C.J. (79)
(2009.08.17 – 2022.10.25)

Bishop emeritus of Kotido (Uganda)

Your word is peace

Born:	1945.03.17 (Baselga del Bondone, Italy)
Ordained Priest:	1978.06.26
Consecrated Bishop:	2009.12.19

Bishop of Kotido (Uganda) (2009.08.17 – 2022.10.25)

Bishop Denis Kiwanuka Lote (later Archbishop)
(1991.05.20 – 2007.06.27)

Conflabunt lanceas in falces

Born:	1938.03.25 (Pallisa, Uganda)
Ordained Priest:	1965.12.19
Consecrated Bishop:	1991.08.18
Died:	2022.04.24 (Uganda † 84)

Bishop of Kotido (Uganda) (1991.05.20 – 2007.06.27)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Tororo (Uganda) (2007.06.27 – 2014.01.02)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Good Shepherd Cathedral, Kotido, Kotido, Northern

Gulu (←), Torit (↖), Lodwar (→), Moroto (↘)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 13,550 km²

Population: 216,846 Catholics (39.2% of 553,779 total)

Pastoral Centres: 10 parishes

Personnel: 30 priests (20 diocesan, 10 religious), 43 religious (11 brothers, 32 sisters), 6 seminarians

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