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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Homa Bay ( la, Homa Bayen(sis)) is a
diocese In Ecclesiastical polity, church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop. History In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided Roman province, pro ...
located in the city of
Homa Bay Homa Bay is a town (and eponymous bay) on the south shore of Winam Gulf of Lake Victoria, in western Kenya. It lies near Mount Homa (in the Luo language ''Got Marahuma'' or ''God Uma'' famous mountain" and Ruma National Park, the latter noted ...
in the
Ecclesiastical province An ecclesiastical province is one of the basic forms of jurisdiction Jurisdiction (from Latin 'law' + 'declaration') is the legal term for the legal authority granted to a legal entity to enact justice. In federations like the United State ...
of
Kisumu Kisumu ( ) is the List of cities and towns in Kenya by population, third-largest city in Kenya after the capital, Nairobi, and the coastal city of Mombasa (census 2019). It is the third-largest city after Kampala and Mwanza in the Lake Victor ...
in
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.


History

* October 18, 1993: Established as Diocese of Homa Bay from the
Diocese of Kisii The Roman Catholic Diocese of Kisii ( la, Kisiian(us)) is a diocese located in the city of Kisii in the Ecclesiastical province of Kisumu in Kenya. History * May 21, 1960: Established as Diocese of Kisii from the Diocese of Kisumu Bishops * Bi ...


Leadership

*
Bishop A bishop is an ordained clergy member who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or office of bishop is ca ...
s of Homa Bay (Roman rite) ** Bishop Linus Okok Okwach (18 Oct 1993 – 20 Feb 2002) ** Bishop
Philip Arnold Subira Anyolo Philip Anyolo (born May 18, 1956, in Tongaren, Bungoma) is a Kenyan Roman Catholic Bishop who serves as Archbishop of Nairobi. He was ordained priest for the Catholic Diocese of Eldoret Eldoret is a principal town in the Rift Valley regi ...
(22 Mar 2003 – 15 Nov 2019), appointed Archbishop of Kisumu **Bishop Michael Cornelius Otieno Odiwa (Nov 2020 – )


See also

*
Roman Catholicism in Kenya The Catholic Church in Kenya is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Kenyan Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Pope in the Vatican City. The earliest traces of the Catholic Church in Kenya begin with th ...
*Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops


References


Sources


GCatholic.org



Homa Bay Partnership with the Diocese of St. Cloud
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