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Welcome to Kotido Diocese.

Welcome to the diocese of Kotido! Find on this website information about the history of the diocese, its Apostolic Administrator, the main functions in the diocese, diocesan statistics, religious communities of men and women with their respective addresses, other institutions including seminaries, catechetical centre, hospitals and health centres, parishes, centres with resident priests, diocesan and relgious priests with their dates of ordination

HISTORY:

The Diocese of Kotido was created on May 20th 1991, being detached from Moroto Diocese which formerly covered the whole of Karamoja Region. It now comprises the Districts of Kotido, Kaabong, and Abim, bordering Southern Sudan in the North, Moroto District in the South, Turkana Region of Kenya in the East, and Lira and Pader Districts in the West.

The first Comboni Missionaries arrived in Karamoja in 1933.  Eventually the area became part of the former Apostolic Prefecture of Gulu, entrusted to the Comboni Missionaries under the leadership of the Mgr. Antonio Vignato mccj.  The Diocese of  Moroto was set up in 1965, again entrusted to the Comboni Missionaries, headed by Rt.Rev.Sisto Mazzoldi mccj. In 1981, Rt.Rev.Paul Kalanda succeeded Rt.Rev.Sisto Mazzoldi mccj, and in 1991 Kotido Diocese was established, with Rt.Rev.Denis Lote Kiwanuka as its first residential Bishop.
Upon the elevation of Rt.Rev. Denis Lote Kiwanuka to the metropolitan Archdiocese of Tororo as its Archbishop, Rev.Fr.Bernard Charles Phelan, ]mhm] was elected Diocesan Administrator  on September 18th 2007.

Bishop Giuseppe Filippi

The Rt. Rev. Giuseppe Filippi was born in Balsega del Bondone, Archdiocese of Trento, Italy, on 17th March 1945. He was ordained a priest on 26th June 1978 as a member of the Comboni Missionaries. On 17th August 2009, His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI appointed Bishop of Kotido and ordained Bishop on 19th December 2009 at Kotido.

 

 

 

The Most Reverend Archbishop Denis Kiwanuka Lote

His Grace Kiwanuka Lote was born on 25th March 1938 at Pallisa. He was ordained a priest on 19th Dec. 1965 in Tororo. Elected First Bishop Kotido on 8th June 1991, he was consecrated a Bishop on 19th August 1991. On 27th of June 2007, the Holy Father appointed Bishop Denis Lote Kiwanuka, the Second Metropolitan Archbishop of Tororo.

 

 

Statistics

Description Number
Area 13,550 sq.kms
Population  470,500
Catholics 154,795
Parishes 10
Convents .6
Diocesan Priests 17
Missionary Priests 8
Indigenous Brothers 1
Missionary Brothers 1
Indigenous Sisters 4
Catechists 155
Functions

FUNCTIONS IN THE DIOCESE OF KOTIDO

Description Name

Vicar General

Board of Consultors:   
                                     
                                      
                                     
                                     
                                    
Caritas Kotido (SSD)    
Secretary for Education   
Youth Organiser               
Youth Chaplain 
Vocations Director 
Pastoral Coordinator (Ag)   
Justice & Peace 
                                     
Director of PMS          
Health Services Coordinator  
FAL/IGA Coordinator     
                                     

Fr.Bernard Phelan

-Fr.Pietro Ciaponi mccj
-Fr.Largo Koryang
-Fr.John Bosco Kutegana
-Fr.Daniel Nabuya
- Fr.Joseph Ocero
Fr.Philip O’Halloran mhm
Mr.Bernard Adude
Mr.Charles Owiny Abungwen
Mr.Charles Owiny Abungwen
Fr.Chris Aleti ,mccj
Fr.John Bosco Sire
Fr.Peter Tukei
.-Fr.Pietro Ciaponi, mccj
-Fr.Samuel Dolphan Lotuk
Fr.Samuel Dolphan Lotuk
Sr. Bibiana Anena -LSMIG
-Mrs.Rose Lokiru
-Ms Catherine Alaso

 

Parishes

Cathedral Parish: The Good Shepherd (2007).
P.O. Box 55, Kotido.
Mill Hill Missionaries & Diocesan Priests,
Sisters of Mary Mother of the Church.

Abim: Our Lady of Lourdes (1992)
P.O. Box 55, Kotido.
Diocesan Priests.

Kaabong: The Crucifixion (1965)
P.O.Box  55,
Kotido.
Diocesan Priests, Sisters of Mary.

Kanawat: Our Lady Mother of God [1970]
c/o Mbuya Procure,
P.O.Box 3872 Kampala.
Comboni Missionaries,
Comboni Missionary Sisters.

Kapedo: St.Catherine of Siena (1987)
c/o Mbuya Procure,
P.O.Box 3872, Kampala.
Comboni Missionaries.

Karenga: Our Lady of Good Council (1983).
P.O.Box 55, Kotido.
Diocesan Priests,
Sacred Heart Sisters of Moyo.

Losilang: Christ the King (1963).
P.O.Box 55, Kotido.
Diocesan Priests,
Daughters of Mary (Bannabikira).

Loyoro: Sacred Heart of Jesus (1966).
P.O.Box 55, Kotido.

Morulem: Immaculate Heart of Mary (1949).
P.O.Box 55, Kotido.
Diocesan Priests,
Little Sisters of Mary Immaculate of Gulu.

Panyangara: St.Joseph (1998).
P.O.Box 92, Kotido.        Mill Hill Missionaries.
Priests

DIOCESAN PRIESTS AND DATES OF ORDINATION
Koryang Gabriel   ....................................06.09.1980
Fr.Koryang Largo  .................................. 09.05.1981
Fr.Okeny Daniel ......................................05.08.1983
Fr.Lokel Philip   .......................................02.03.1986
Fr.Lokodo Simon  .................................. 02.03.1986
Fr.Wanjala Frederick  .............................03.12.1994
Fr.Kutegana John Bosco .........................08.12.1995
Fr,Ocero Joseph .....................................02.10.1996
Fr.Ochole David   ....................................02.10.1999
Fr.Nabuya Daniel    ................................ 01.01.2002
Fr.Lotuk Samuel Dolphan  .......................09.08.2003
Fr.Ojulun Robert   .................................. 03.07.2004
Fr.Lobeerei Raphael  .............................. 06.08.2005
Fr.Tukei Peter   ...................................... 06.08.2005
Fr.Peter Lokiru    .................................... 06.08.2005
Fr.Opio Jonathan   ...................................14.07.2007
Fr.Sire John Bosco ..................................14.07.2007

COMBONI MISSIONARIES
Fr.Ciaponi Pietro      .............................. 27.05.1983
Fr.Verdejo Alondo Jose’J   ......................09.12.1978
Fr.Lopez Fernandez Longinos ...............22.12.1978
Fr.Aleti Christopher    ............................01.03.2003
Fr.Jovilla Nolasco  ..................................08.08.2005
Br.Camporese Mario (Perpetual vows)..18.04.1993

MILL HILL MISSIONARIES
Fr.Wiedemayr Leonard .......................... 09.07.1956
Fr.Phelan Bernard Charles......................01.07.1967
Fr.O’Halloran Philip .................................09.04.1988

 

BROTHER OF ST.JOSEPH THE WORKER
Bro.Ngabirano Joseph

Institutions

HEALTH INSTITUTIONS

Kaabong Mission Health Centre
P.O.Box 55, Kotido

Kapedo Mission St.Jude Health Centre
P.O.Box 55, Kotido

Kanawat Mission Health Centre
P.O.Box 7193, Kampala
Losilang Mission Health Centre
P.O.Box 55, Kotido

Morulem Mission Health Centre
P.O.Box 55, Kotido.

EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS

St.Mary’s Nursery School
P.O.Box 55, Kotido

Jubilee Secondary School Karenga
P.O.box 80, Kotido.

Morulem Girls S.S.
P.O.Box 55, Kotido

St.Monica Women’s Club Kaabong
P.O.Box 55, Kotido

Pope John Paul II SS Kaabong
P.O.Box 55, Kotido

Contacts
ADDRESS
Diocese of Kotido
P.O.Box 55
KOTIDO -UGANDA
Or
Diocese of Kotido
c/o Mbuya Procure
P.O.box 3872
KAMPALA- UGANDA
Tel: 0782 338199 or 0712 067487
Email: kotidodiocese2005@yahoo.co.uk
bcphelanuganda@yahoo.co.uk

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