Roman Catholic Diocese of Rutabo

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Rutabo was a short-lived bishopric in Tanzania and is now a Latin Catholic titular see.

History

It was established on 13 December 1951 as Apostolic Vicariate of Lower Kagera, on territory split off from the then Apostolic Vicariate of Bubuka.
Promoted and renamed after its see city on 25 March 1953 as the Diocese of Rutabo, a suffragan of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Mwanza.
Suppressed on 21 June 1960, its territory being used to establish the Diocese of Bukoba.

Ordinary

;Apostolic Vicar of Lower Kagera

Laurean Rugambwa, Titular Bishop of Febiana

;Suffragan Bishop of Rutabo

Laurean Rugambwa ; later created Cardinal-Priest of San Francesco a Ripa, Bishop of Bukoba, Metropolitan Archbishop of Dar-es-Salaam, President of Association of Member Episcopal Conferences in Eastern Africa

Titular see

It was nominally restored in January 2009 as a Latin titular bishopric.
It has had the following incumbent, of the fitting Episcopal rank :

Telesphore Bilung, Divine Word Missionaries, Auxiliary Bishop of Ranchi