Roman Catholic Diocese of Zanzibar

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Zanzibar (Latin: Dioecesis Zanzibarensis) is a suffragan Latin diocese in the Ecclesiastical province of the Metropoltan 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.

St. Joseph’s Cathedral in 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 - ...)

See also

• Roman Catholicism in Tanzania

Wikisource has the text of the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia article Zanzibar.

Source and External links

• GCatholic.org with incumebt biography links
• Catholic Hierarchy

Coordinates: 6°09′46″S 39°11′20″E / 6.1628°S 39.1888°E / -6.1628; 39.1888