Laurean Rugambwa was the first modern native African Cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Dar es Salaam from 1968 to 1992, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1960.
The Catholic Church in Tanzania is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome.
The Anglican Church of Tanzania (ACT) is a province of the Anglican Communion based in Dodoma. It consists of 28 dioceses headed by their respective bishops. It seceded from the Province of East Africa in 1970, which it shared with Kenya. The current primate and archbishop is Maimbo Mndolwa, enthroned on 20 May 2018.
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The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dar-es-Salaam is a Latin Metropolitan archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Tanzania.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mwanza is the Metropolitan See for the Ecclesiastical province of Mwanza in Tanzania.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Songea is the Metropolitan See for the Ecclesiastical province of Songea in Tanzania.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Same is a diocese located in the Same District in the ecclesiastical province of Arusha in Tanzania.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Morogoro is a diocese located in the city of Morogoro in the Ecclesiastical province of Dar-es-Salaam in Tanzania.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Tanga is a diocese located in the city of Tanga in the Ecclesiastical province of Dar-es-Salaam in Tanzania.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Zanzibar 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.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Bukoba is a diocese located in Bukoba 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 Diocese of Tunduru–Masasi is a diocese located in Tunduru–Masasi in the Ecclesiastical province of Songea in Tanzania.
Placidus Gervasius Nkalanga, OSB was a Tanzanian Prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was a monk of the St Maurus & St Placidus Hanga Abbey in Hanga, Ruvuma Region, Tanzania, a Benedictine monastery of the Congregation of Missionary Benedictines of Saint Ottilien. He lived there for 42 years, from his resignation from the bishopry in 1973 until his death in 2015.
The diocese of Ifakara is a see of the Roman Catholic Church suffragan of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dar-es-Salaam. In 2012, it counted 287,000 baptized people among a population of 322,779 inhabitants. Its current bishop is Salutaris Melchior Libena.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Rutabo was a short-lived (1951–1960) bishopric in Tanzania and is now a Latin Catholic titular see.
The Diocese of Dar es Salaam is a diocese in the Anglican Church of Tanzania. The current bishop is the Right Reverend Jackson Sosthenes.
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