Roman Catholic Diocese of Bukoba
The Diocese of Bukoba (Latin: Dioecesis Bukobaënsis ) is a location in Tanzania Roman Catholic diocese based in Bukoba.
History
The Diocese of Bukoba was posted on December 13, 1951 by Pope Pius XII. with the Apostolic Constitution Whether divinitus of annexations of the Apostolic Vicariate Apostolic Vicariate Kagera Bukoba built as Inferiore.
On March 25, 1953, the Apostolic Vicariate of Kagera Inferiore was by Pope Pius XII. charged with the Apostolic Constitution Quemadmodum ad Nos to the diocese and renamed diocese Rutabo. It was the Archdiocese of Tabora is a suffragan. The diocese Rutabo was renamed on 21 June 1960 in the diocese of Bukoba. The Diocese of Bukoba was placed under the Archdiocese of Mwanza suffragan on 18 November 1987.
The name Rutabo is run as a titular since 2009.
Ordinaries
Vicars Apostolic of Kagera Inferiore
- Laurean Rugambwa, 1951-1953
Bishops of Rutabo
- Laurean Cardinal Rugambwa, 1953-1960
Bishops of Bukoba
- Laurean Cardinal Rugambwa, 1960-1968, then Archbishop of Dar es Salaam
- Placidus Gervase Nkalanga OSB, 1969-1973
- Nestorius Timanywa, 1973-2013
- Desiderius Rwoma, Since 2013
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