Diocese of Kitui
| Diocese of Kitui | |
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Country | Kenya |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Nairobi |
| Diocesan bishop | Joseph Mwongela |
| founding | 1956 |
| surface | 30,346 km² |
| Parishes | 26 (2016 / AP2017 ) |
| Residents | 1,387,583 (2016 / AP2017 ) |
| Catholics | 213,441 (2016 / AP2017 ) |
| proportion of | 15.4% |
| Diocesan priest | 74 (2016 / AP2017 ) |
| Religious priest | 2 (2016 / AP2017 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 2,808 |
| Friars | 9 (2016 / AP2017 ) |
| Religious sisters | 93 (2016 / AP2017 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language |
Swahili English |
| cathedral | Cathedral of Our Lady of Africa |
| Website | http://www.dioceseofkitui.org/ |
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Kitui ( lat. : Dioecesis Kituiensis ) is in Kenya situated Roman Catholic diocese based in Kitui . It includes the Kitui County .
history
Pope Pius XII founded the Apostolic Prefecture Kitui with the Apostolic Constitution Quoniam superna on February 20, 1956 from cessions of territory from the Diocese of Meru and the Archdiocese of Nairobi .
On November 16, 1963, with the Apostolic Constitution of the Gospel of Christ , she was elevated to the status of a diocese, which was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Nairobi as a suffragan diocese.
Ordinaries
Apostolic Prefect of Kitui
- William Dunne SPS (October 19, 1956– November 16, 1963)
Bishops of Kitui
- William Dunne SPS (November 16, 1963– November 2, 1995)
- Boniface Lele (November 2, 1995– April 1, 2005, then Archbishop of Mombasa )
- Anthony Muheria (June 28, 2008– April 23, 2017, then Archbishop of Nyeri )
- Joseph Mwongela (since March 17, 2020)
See also
Web links
- Website of the Diocese of Kitui
- Entry for the Diocese of Kitui on catholic-hierarchy.org
- Entry on the diocese of Kitui on gcatholic.org (English)