Roman Catholic Diocese of Torit

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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Torit (

The Diocese of Torit is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Juba. It was detached from Juba on May 2, 1983. The first Bishop Paride Taban was appointed on July 2, 1983. The Diocese covers 82,542 km². and has a population of 1,550,000 of whom around 70% (1,085,000) are Catholics.^[1] It has three deaneries: Western Deanery, bordering Uganda, Central Deanery, bordering north south of Uganda and Eastern Deanery, bordering Kenya and part of Ethiopia. Due to the civil war from 1984 to 2005, the diocese operated from Nairobi. After signing the peace agreement, the see of the diocese opened in Torit. The Diocese serves 15 parishes, 36 Eucharistic Centers, and 240 other stations not regularly visited by priests, but by lay leaders and catechists.

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• Paride Taban (2 July 1983 – 7 February 2004)
• Akio Johnson Mutek (9 June 2007 – 15 March 2013)
• Stephen Ameyu Martin Mulla (3 January 2019 – 12 December 2019),^[2][3] appointed Archbishop of Juba
  • Bishop Emmanuel Bernardino Lowi Napeta (8 November 2022 – present)

See also

• Roman Catholicism in South Sudan

Sources

• Diocese of Torit on GCatholic.org

References