Archdiocese of Tororo
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tororo is the Metropolitan See for the ecclesiastical province of Tororo in Uganda.
On January 2, 2014, it was announced that the Bishop of Soroti, Uganda, Emmanuel Obbo, had been named by Pope Francis to be the new Archbishop of Tororo.
History
- July 13, 1894: Established as the Apostolic Vicariate of Upper Nile from the Apostolic Vicariate of Victoria–Nyanza
- May 10, 1951: Renamed as Apostolic Vicariate of Tororo
- March 25, 1953: Promoted as Diocese of Tororo
- January 2, 1999: Promoted as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Tororo
Special churches
The seat of the archbishop is the Uganda Martyrs’ Cathedral in Tororo.Leadership
- Metropolitan Archbishops of Tororo
- * Archbishop Denis Kiwanuka Lote
- * Archbishop James Odongo
- Bishops of Tororo
- * Archbishop James Odongo
- * Bishop John Francis Greif, M.H.M.
- Vicars Apostolic of Tororo
- * Bishop John Francis Greif, M.H.M.
- Vicars Apostolic of Upper Nile
- * Bishop John Reesinck, M.H.M.
- * Bishop John William Campling, M.H.M.
- * Bishop Johannes Biermans, M.H.M.
- * Bishop Henry Hanlon, M.H.M.