Diocese of

Wote

Kenya

Continent: Eastern and Central Africa

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Wote / Woten(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Nairobi

Depends on: Dicastery for Evangelisation

Celebrations

Liturgical Calendar (National) 📅

History

2023.07.22: Established as Diocese of Wote / Woten(sis) (Latin) (from Diocese of Machakos and became suffragan of Nairobi)

Present Prelates

Bishop (2023.07.22 – ...):	Bishop Paul Kariuki Njiru (62)
Apostolic Administrator sede plena (2025.09.21 – ...):	Bishop Simon Peter Kamomoe (62) Titular Bishop of Thubunæ in Numidia
Auxiliary Bishop (2025.07.05 – ...):	Bishop Simon Peter Kamomoe (62) Titular Bishop of Thubunæ in Numidia

Ordinaries

Bishops of Wote (Roman Rite)

Bishop Simon Peter Kamomoe (62)
(Apostolic Administrator sede plena 2025.09.21 – ...)

Bishop Norman King’oo Wambua (72)
(Apostolic Administrator sede plena 2024.09.28 – 2025.09.21)

Bishop Paul Kariuki Njiru (62)
(2023.07.22 – ...)

Bishop of Wote (Kenya)

Ego sum bonus pastor tibi et omnibus

Born:	1963.03.11 (Kathunguri, Kenya)
Ordained Priest:	1993.03.01
Consecrated Bishop:	2009.07.25

Priest of Embu (Kenya) (1993.03.01 – 2009.05.09)

Bishop of Embu (Kenya) (2009.05.09 – 2023.07.22)

Bishop of Wote (Kenya) (2023.07.22 – ...)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Cathedral of St. Joseph the Worker, Wote, Makueni

Ngong (←), Machakos (↖), Kitui (↗), Mombasa (↘)

Statistics (2023.12.31)

Area: 8,009 km²

Population: 388,946 Catholics (39.4% of 987,653 total)

Pastoral Centres: 31 parishes

Personnel: 99 priests (90 diocesan, 9 religious), 3 deacons, 21 religious (21 brothers), 36 seminarians

Pastoral Centres

Last updated on 2025.11.11

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