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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Mutare ( la, Mutaren(sis)) is a
suffragan A suffragan bishop is a type of bishop in some Christian denominations. In the Anglican Communion, a suffragan bishop is a bishop who is subordinate to a metropolitan bishop or diocesan bishop (bishop ordinary) and so is not normally jurisdictiona ...
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 ...
in eastern
Zimbabwe Zimbabwe (), officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country located in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the south-west, Zambia to the north, and Mozam ...
. It includes the city of
Mutare Mutare (formerly Umtali) is the most populous city in the province of Manicaland, and the third most populous city in Zimbabwe, having surpassed Gweru in the 2012 census, with an urban area, urban population of 224,802 and approximately 260,567 ...
and is part of the
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of
Harare Harare (; formerly Salisbury ) is the capital and most populous city of Zimbabwe. The city proper has an area of 940 km2 (371 mi2) and a population of 2.12 million in the 2012 census and an estimated 3.12 million in its metropolitan ...
.


History

* February 2, 1953: Established as Apostolic Prefecture of Umtali from the Apostolic Vicariate of Fort Victoria and Apostolic Vicariate of Salisbury * February 15, 1957: Promoted as Diocese of Umtali * June 25, 1982: Renamed as Diocese of Mutare


Bishops


Prefect Apostolic of Umtali

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Donal Lamont Donal Raymond Lamont (27 July 1911 – 14 August 2003), was an Irish-Rhodesian Roman Catholic bishop and missionary who was best known for his fight against white minority rule in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Early years Donal Raymond Lamont was ...
, OCarm (6 February 1953 – 15 February 1957)


Bishops of Umtali

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Donal Lamont Donal Raymond Lamont (27 July 1911 – 14 August 2003), was an Irish-Rhodesian Roman Catholic bishop and missionary who was best known for his fight against white minority rule in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Early years Donal Raymond Lamont was ...
, OCarm (15 February 1957 – 5 November 1981) #
Alexio Churu Muchabaiwa Alexio Churu Muchabaiwa (21 June 1939 – 8 January 2024) was a Zimbabwean prelate who was bishop for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mutare. He became ordained as a priest by Archbishop Markaal on 24 August 1968 at Mount St. Mary’s Mission in ...
(5 November 1981 – 25 June 1982)


Bishops of Mutare

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Alexio Churu Muchabaiwa Alexio Churu Muchabaiwa (21 June 1939 – 8 January 2024) was a Zimbabwean prelate who was bishop for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mutare. He became ordained as a priest by Archbishop Markaal on 24 August 1968 at Mount St. Mary’s Mission in ...
(25 June 1982 – 27 August 2016) # Paul Horan, OCarm (27 August 2016 – )


Auxiliary bishop

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Patrick Mumbure Mutume Patrick Mumbure Mutume (October 31, 1943 – February 8, 2017) was a Roman Catholic bishop. Ordained to the priesthood in 1972, Mutume served as auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mutare The Roman Catholic Diocese of Mutare ...
(17 June 1979 – 8 February 2017)


See also

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Catholic Church in Zimbabwe The Catholic Church in Zimbabwe is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. There were 1,145,000 Catholics in the country (about 9% of the total population) in 2005.List of Catholic dioceses in Zimbabwe The Catholic Church in Zimbabwe (in southern Africa; formerly (Southern) Rhodesia) is composed only of a Latin hierarchy, joint in the national Episcopal Conference of Zimbabwe, comprising two ecclesiastical provinces, each headed by a Metropo ...


Notes


References


GCatholic.org
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External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mutare Roman Catholic dioceses in Zimbabwe Christian organizations established in 1953 Roman Catholic dioceses and prelatures established in the 20th century Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Harare