Archdiocese of Songea

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Archdiocese of Songea
Basic data
Country Tanzania
Diocesan bishop Damian Dalu
Emeritus diocesan bishop Norbert Wendelin Mtega
Vicar General Reginald Moyo
founding 1913
surface 38,600 km²
Parishes 32 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Residents 579,300 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Catholics 313,723 (2017 / AP 2018 )
proportion of 54.2%
Diocesan priest 57 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Religious priest 30 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Catholics per priest 3,606
Friars 210 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Religious sisters 543 (2017 / AP 2018 )
rite Roman rite
cathedral St. Mathias Mulumba Kalemba Metropolitan Cathedral
Website www.songea.org
Suffragan dioceses Diocese of Lindi
Diocese of Mbinga
Diocese of Mtwara
Diocese of Njombe
Diocese of Tunduru-Masasi

The Erzbistum Songea ( lat. : Archidioecesis Songeanus ) is an in Tanzania preferred Roman Catholic Archdiocese based in Songea .

history

The Archdiocese of Songea was established on November 12, 1913 by Pope Pius X from cession of territory of the Apostolic Vicariate Dar es Salaam as Apostolic Prefecture Lindi and in 1922 entrusted to the Missionary Benedictines of Uznach . On December 15, 1927, the Apostolic Prefecture of Lindi by Pope Pius XI. raised to the Abbatia nullius . On December 22, 1931 was territorial abbey Lindi divided into two territorial abbeys: The newly established territorial abbey Ndanda and in territorial abbey Peramiho renamed Abbey Lindi. On February 16, 1968, the Peramiho Territorial Abbey gave up parts of its territory to establish the Diocese of Njombe . The Territorial Abbey of Peramiho was founded on February 6, 1969 by Pope Paul VI. downgraded to an ordinary abbey with the papal bull Quod Sancta and the diocesan area was added to the newly founded diocese of Songea . This was accompanied by the relocation of the bishopric from Peramiho to Songea. The Diocese of Songea was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Dar es Salaam as a suffragan . On December 22, 1986 the Diocese of Songea gave up parts of its territory to establish the Diocese of Mbinga .

On November 18, 1987, the Diocese of Songea was raised to an archbishopric by Pope John Paul II .

Ordinaries

Apostolic Prefect of Lindi

Abbots of the Territorial Abbey of Lindi

  • Gallus Steiger OSB, 1927–1931

Abbots of the Territorial Abbey of Peramiho

Bishops of Songea

Archbishops of Songea

See also

Footnotes

  1. ^ Ivo Auf der Maur: A worker from the very beginning. † Former Bishop Gallus Steiger OSB . In: Erbe und Einsatz , Vol. 43 (1967), pp. 70–72.

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