"Kiswahili" is the Swahili word for the language. Any text not in Swahili should refer to the language as "Swahili". The "ki-" in Swahili merely denotes a language, such as "kifaranza" (French) and "kiingereza" (English).
Mpanda District is one of the two districts of the Katavi Region of Tanzania. Its administrative seat is the city of Mpanda. The district is bordered to the northwest by the Kigoma Region, to the northeast by the Tabora Region, to the east by the Mbeya Region, to the southeast by the Sumbawanga Urban District, to the southwest by the Nkasi District and to the west by Lake Tanganyika.
The Catholic Church in Tanzania is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome.
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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Galway, Kilmacduagh and Kilfenora is a Roman Catholic diocese in the west of Ireland. It is in the ecclesiastical province of Tuam and is subject to the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Tuam. The deanery of Kilfenora, previously a diocese in its own right, lies in the ecclesiastical province of Cashel. The ordinary is Bishop Michael Duignan who was appointed on 11 February 2022.
Michael Francis Burbidge is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who has been the Bishop of the Diocese of Arlington in Virginia since 2016. He previously served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania from 2002 to 2006 and as Bishop of the Diocese of Raleigh in North Carolina from 2006 to 2016.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mbeya is an archdiocese located in Mbeya in Tanzania.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Mpanda is a diocese located in Mpanda in the Ecclesiastical province of Tabora in Tanzania.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Sumbawanga is a diocese located in Sumbawanga in the Ecclesiastical province of Mbeya in Tanzania.
Herbert Armstrong Bevard is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as the Bishop of Saint Thomas in the United States Virgin Islands from 2008 until 2020.
The Bishop of Zanzibar is the Diocesan of an island diocese in the Anglican Church of Tanzania. Its current bishop is Michael Hafidh. The bishop's seat is Christ Church, Zanzibar, the Anglican cathedral in Stone Town, Zanzibar, Tanzania.
Mpanda is a city in Katavi Region of Tanzania, East Africa with a postcode number 50100. It is the administrative centre of Katavi Region, Mpanda District and is itself one of the four districts of the region.
Léonce Bridoux, M. Afr. was a Catholic missionary of the White Fathers who became the Vicar Apostolic of Tanganyika.
Jean-Baptiste-Frézal Charbonnier, M.Afr. was a Catholic White Fathers missionary who was Vicar Apostolic of Tanganyika from January 1887 to March 1888.
Karema is a settlement in Tanzania, on the east shore of Lake Tanganyika, once the location of a White Fathers mission station.
Adolphe Lechaptois, M. Afr. was a priest of the White Fathers missionary society who was Vicar Apostolic of Tanganyika from 1891 until his death in 1917, in what is now Tanzania. He took responsibility for the vicariate at a time of great danger, when the missions were insecure havens for people fleeing slavers. As the country settled down, he oversaw expansion in the number of missions and schools. He was the author of a book on the ethnography of the local people that won a prize from the French Société de Géographie.
Joseph-Marie Birraux, M. Afr. was a Catholic bishop who was Vicar Apostolic of Tanganyika and later became Superior General of the White Fathers, or Society of Missionaries of Africa.
Jan Cornelius van Sambeek, M.Afr. was a Dutch White Fathers missionary who was the Vicar Apostolic of Tanganyika (1936–1946), and then Bishop of Kigoma (1946–1957), in the former British-administered Tanganyika Territory, now Tanzania.
Nestorius Timanywa was a Tanzanian Roman Catholic bishop.
Michael Gerard Duignan is an Irish Roman Catholic prelate who has been the Bishop of Clonfert since 2019 and additionally as Bishop of Galway and Kilmacduagh since 2022.
