Roman Catholic Diocese of Zanzibar

Latin Catholic territory in Tanzania

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Italian. (February 2011) Click [show] for important translation instructions.

View a machine-translated version of the Italian article.
Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 3,067 articles in the main category, and specifying|topic= will aid in categorization.
Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Italian Wikipedia article at [[:it:Diocesi di Zanzibar]]; see its history for attribution.
You should also add the template {{Translated|it|Diocesi di Zanzibar}} to the talk page.
For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Diocese of Zanzibar Dioecesis Zanzibarensis

Location
Country	Tanzania
Ecclesiastical province	Dar-es-Salaam
Statistics
Area	2,332 km² (900 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2004) 990,900 9,900 (1.0%)
Information
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Augustine Ndeliakyama Shao, C.S.Sp.

The Diocese of Zanzibar (Latin: Dioecesis Zanzibarensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or diocese of the Catholic Church. It is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Dar-es-Salaam.

The diocese’s cathedral is St. Joseph's Cathedral located in the episcopal see of 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 1980.03.28 as Diocese of Zanzibar

Ordinaries

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)
Antoine Hormer, C.S.Sp. (1868 – 1877)
Jean-Marie-Raoul Le Bas de Courmont, C.S.Sp. (1883.10.27 – 1883.11.23)

Apostolic Vicars of Zanguebar

Jean-Marie-Raoul Le Bas de Courmont, C.S.Sp. (1883.11.23 – 1887), 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. (1887 – 1896.11.27)
Emile-Auguste Allgeyer, C.S.Sp. (1897.02.17 – 1906.12.21), Titular Bishop of Ticelia (1897.02.17 – 1924.04.09)

Apostolic Vicars of Zanzibar

Emile-Auguste Allgeyer, C.S.Sp. (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 William 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

Edgar Aristide Maranta, 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)