Diocese of Monze, Zambia 🇿🇲

Continent: Eastern and Central Africa

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Monze / Monzen(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Lusaka

Neighbouring Dioceses: Livingstone (↙), Kabwe (↑), Lusaka (↗), Chinhoyi (→), Gokwe (↘), Hwange (↓)

Depends on: Dicastery for Evangelisation

Celebrations

Liturgical Calendar (Universal) 📅

History

1962.03.10: Established as Diocese of Monze / Monzen(sis) (Latin) (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Lusaka and became suffragan of Lusaka)

Present Prelates

Bishop (2022.02.25 – ...):

Bishop Raphael Mweempwa (52)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Monze (Roman Rite)

Bishop Raphael Mweempwa (52)
(2022.02.25 – ...)

Bishop of Monze (Zambia)

Your will be done

Born:	1974.03.30 (Monze, Zambia)
Ordained Priest:	2002.06.29
Consecrated Bishop:	2022.05.07

Priest of Monze (Zambia) (2002.06.29 – 2022.02.25)

Bishop of Monze (Zambia) (2022.02.25 – ...)

Fr. Francesco Airoldi
(Apostolic Administrator 2021.01.22 – 2022.02.25)

Bishop Moses Hamungole
(2014.02.10 – 2021.01.13)

Mane nobiscum Domine

Born:	1967.05.01 (Kafue, Zambia)
Ordained Priest:	1994.08.06
Consecrated Bishop:	2014.05.03
Died:	2021.01.13 (Monze, Zimbabwe † 53)

Priest of Lusaka (Zambia) (1994.08.06 – 2014.02.10)

Bishop of Monze (Zambia) (2014.02.10 – 2021.01.13)

Bishop Emilio Patriarca (88)
(1999.06.22 – 2014.02.10)

Bishop emeritus of Monze (Zambia)

My grace is enough for you

Born:	1937.07.10 (Varese, Italy)
Ordained Priest:	1962.06.28
Consecrated Bishop:	1999.09.19

Priest of Milano (Italy) (1962.06.28 – 1999.06.22)

Bishop of Monze (Zambia) (1999.06.22 – 2014.02.10)

Bishop Paul Lungu, S.J.
(1991.11.26 – 1998.04.29)

Born:	1946.10.10 (Kabwe, Zambia)
Ordained Priest:	1979.08.05
Consecrated Bishop:	1992.03.15
Died:	1998.04.29 († 51)

Bishop of Monze (Zambia) (1991.11.26 – 1998.04.29)

Bishop James Corboy, S.J.
(1962.03.10 – 1991.11.26)

Born:	1916.10.20 (Cahirconlish, Ireland)
Ordained Priest:	1948.07.28
Consecrated Bishop:	1962.06.24
Died:	2004.11.24 († 88)

Bishop of Monze (Zambia) (1962.03.10 – 1991.11.26)

President of Zambia Episcopal Conference (1969 – 1972)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Monze, Southern

Livingstone (↙), Kabwe (↑), Lusaka (↗), Chinhoyi (→), Gokwe (↘), Hwange (↓)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 72,000 km²

Population: 459,520 Catholics (26.1% of 1,759,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 26 parishes, 1 mission

Personnel: 66 priests (47 diocesan, 19 religious), 33 religious (23 brothers, 10 sisters), 25 seminarians