Diocese of Nakuru
Diocese of Nakuru | |
Basic data | |
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Country | Kenya |
Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Nairobi |
Diocesan bishop | Maurice Muhatia Makumba |
founding | 1968 |
surface | 18,149 km² |
Parishes | 38 ( 12/31/2004 / AP2005 ) |
Residents | 1,471,451 ( 12/31/2004 / AP2005 ) |
Catholics | 230,822 ( 12/31/2004 / AP2005 ) |
proportion of | 15.7% |
Diocesan priest | 64 ( 12/31/2004 / AP2005 ) |
Religious priest | 39 ( 12/31/2004 / AP2005 ) |
Catholics per priest | 2,241 |
Friars | 118 ( 12/31/2004 / AP2005 ) |
Religious sisters | 155 ( 12/31/2004 / AP2005 ) |
rite | Roman rite |
Liturgical language |
Swahili English |
cathedral | Christ the King Cathedral |
Website | http://www.cathdnkenya.org/ |
The Diocese of Nakuru ( lat. : Dioecesis Nakurensis ) is in Kenya situated Roman Catholic diocese based in Nakuru . It includes the former Nakuru, Baringo and Koibatek counties in what is now Nakuru and Baringo Counties .
history
Pope Paul VI founded it with the Apostolic Constitution Quam curam on January 11, 1968 from cessions of territory from the dioceses of Eldoret , Kisumu and the archdiocese of Nairobi , to which it was also subordinated as a suffragan diocese.
On December 6, 1995, it lost part of its territory to the Kericho diocese .
Bishops of Nakuru
- Raphael S. Ndingi Mwana a'Nzeki (August 30, 1971– June 14, 1996, then Coadjutor Archbishop of Nairobi )
- Peter J. Kairo (April 21, 1997– April 19, 2008, then Archbishop of Nyeri )
- Maurice Muhatia Makumba (since December 19, 2009)