Roman Catholic Diocese of Zanzibar

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Metropolitan Dar-es-Salaam Pope Francis Country Tanzania		Rite Latin Rite Area 2,332 km²

Population- Total- Catholics (as of 2004)990,9009,900 (1.0%) Bishop Augustine Ndeliakyama Shao Ecclesiastical province Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dar-es-Salaam

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Zanzibar (Latin: Dioecesis Zanzibarensis) is a suffragan Latin diocese in the Ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan of Dar-es-Salaam in Tanzania, covering that federation's insular Indian Ocean component.

Its cathedral episcopal see is St. Joseph’s Cathedral located in and on Zanzibar.

History

Established 1860 as Apostolic Prefecture of Zanguebar, on vast East African territory split off from the Diocese of Saint-Denis-de-La Réunion in Réunion

1883: Promoted as Apostolic Vicariate of Zanguebar, hence entitled to a titular bishop

November 16, 1887: Renamed as Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Zanguebar, having lost territory to establish the Apostolic Prefecture of Southern Zanguebar

Lost territories repeatedly : in 1904 to establish the Apostolic Prefecture of Benadir, on 1905.09.14 to establish the Mission sui juris of Kenya and on 1906.05.11 to establish the Apostolic Vicariate of Central Zanguebar

Renamed in 1906 as Apostolic Vicariate of Zanzibar

Suppressed on 1953.03.25, its territory being used to establish the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Nairobi

Restored but demoted on December 12, 1964 and renamed as Apostolic Administration of Zanzibar and Pemba

Promoted on March 28, 1980 as Diocese of Zanzibar

Ordinaries

(all Roman rite, initially missionary members of Latin congregations)

Apostolic Prefects of Zanguebar

Armand-René Maupoint (1862 – 1871.07.10), while Bishop of mother diocese (Saint-Denis-de-)La Réunion (Réunion) ([1857.02.14] 1857.03.19 – 1871.07.10)

Homer, Holy Ghost Fathers (C.S.Sp.) (1872 – 1882)

Jean-Marie-Raoul Le Bas de Courmont, C.S.Sp. (1883.10.27 – 1883.11.23 see below)

Apostolic Vicars of Zanguebar

Jean-Marie-Raoul Le Bas de Courmont, C.S.Sp. (see above 1883.11.23 – 1887 see below), Titular Bishop of Bodona (1883.11.23 – 1925.02.20)

Apostolic Vicars of Northern Zanguebar

Jean-Marie-Raoul Le Bas de Courmont, C.S.Sp. (see above 1887 – 1896.11.27)

Emile-Auguste Allgeyer, C.S.Sp. (1897.02.17 – 1906.12.21 see below), Titular Bishop of Ticelia (1897.02.17 – 1924.04.09)

Apostolic Vicars of Zanzibar

Emile-Auguste Allgeyer, C.S.Sp. (see above 1906.12.21 – 1913.04.03)

John Gerald Neville, C.S.Sp. (1913.09.01 – 1930.03.08), Titular Bishop of Carrhæ (1913.09.01 – 1943.02.27)

Apostolic Administrator^ the same John Gerald Neville, C.S.Sp. (1930.03.08 – 1943.02.27)

John Heffernan, C.S.Sp. (1932.03.15 – 1946), Titular Bishop of Uzippari (1932.03.15 – 1966.03.20)

John Joseph McCarthy, C.S.Sp. (1946.07.11 – 1953.03.25), Titular Bishop of Cercina (1946.07.11 – 1953.03.25), later Metropolitan Archbishop of Nairobi (Kenya) (1953.03.25 – 1971.10.24), President of Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (1969 – 1970)

(suppressed 1953 - 1964)

Apostolic Administrators of Zanzibar and Pemba

Edgard Aristide Maranta, Capuchin Franciscans (O.F.M. Cap.) (1964.12.12 – 1966), Titular Bishop of Vinda (1930.03.27 – 1953.03.25), while Metropolitan Archbishop of Dar-es-Salaam (Tanzania) (1953.03.25 – 1968.12.19)

Joseph Sipendi (1966 – 1968), later Bishop of Moshi(Tanzania) (1968.01.11 – 1985.04.29)

Adriani Mkoba (1968.07.16 – 1973.01.26), while Bishop of Morogoro (Tanzania) (1966.12.15 – 1992.11.06)

Bernard Martin Ngaviliau, C.S.Sp. (1973 – 1980.03.28 see below)

Suffragan Bishops of Zanzibar

Bernard Martin Ngaviliau, C.S.Sp. (see above 1980.03.28 – 1996.11.30)

Augustine Ndeliakyama Shao, C.S.Sp. (1996.11.30 - ...)

References

Roman Catholic Diocese of Zanzibar Wikipedia

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