The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kasama is the Metropolitan See for the ecclesiastical province of Kasama in Zambia.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mwanza is the Metropolitan See for the ecclesiastical province of Mwanza in Tanzania.
The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Tabora is the Metropolitan See for the ecclesiastical province of Tabora in Tanzania.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lilongwe is the Roman Catholic archdiocese located in Lilongwe in Malawi. Before its elevation to an archdiocese in 2011, it had belonged to the ecclesiastical province of the Archdiocese of Blantyre. The Maula Cathedral is located in the town of Lilongwe.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Mpika is a Latin Rite suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archbishop of Kasama, also in Zambia.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Kalemie–Kirungu is a diocese located in the city of Kalemie–Kirungu in the ecclesiastical province of Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Rulenge–Ngara is a diocese located in Rulenge in the ecclesiastical province of Mwanza in Tanzania.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Iringa is a diocese located in Iringa in the ecclesiastical province of Mbeya in Tanzania.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mbeya is an archdiocese located in Mbeya in Tanzania.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Kigoma is a diocese located in Kigoma in the ecclesiastical province of Tabora in Tanzania. Because of the appointment of Bishop Protase Rugambwa as an Archbishop ad personam by Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday, June 26, 2012, the Diocese became a vacant see.
The Apostolic Vicariate of Tanganyika was a Catholic apostolic vicariate of the White Fathers missionary order at first centered on the mission of Karema in what is now Tanzania, that included parts of what are now Rwanda, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia and Malawi. As the number of missions, schools and converts grew, different regions became distinct vicariates covering portions of the original territory.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Chipata is a diocese located in Chipata in Zambia.
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.
Tracula is a former Ancient city and bishopric in Asia Minor, which remains a Latin Catholic titular see.
Charles Msakila was a Roman Catholic bishop from Tanzania. He was ordained a priest on August 31, 1947, and was appointed bishop of the Diocese of Karema on November 13, 1958. The ordination to the bishop followed on December 27. The principal consecrator was Pope John XXIII, assisted by Girolamo Bartolomeo Bortignon and Gioacchino Muccin.
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