MBULU, APOSTOLIC PREFECTURE OF. - In the northern part of the territory of Tanganyika, entrusted to the Society of the Catholic Apostolate (Pallottine Fathers).

It was erected on 13 April 1943; it comprises the civil districts of Mkalama (detached from the vicariate of Tabora), of Singida (detached in part from the vicariate of Tabora and in part from the prefecture of Dodoma), and of M. (detached in part from the vicariate of Tabora and in part from the vicariate of Kilimanjaro).

It has an area of 60,000 sq km with 450,000 inhabitants, of whom 10,060 are Catholics, 3,616 catechumens; 13 foreign priests, 6 native priests, 4 foreign lay brothers, 6 foreign sisters, 110 catechists, 27 teachers, 7 major seminarians, 8 minor seminarians, 8 principal mission stations and 25 secondary ones, 6 churches and 27 chapels, 5 dispensaries, 2 hospitals with 50 beds, 1 orphanage, 7 elementary schools. Especially in recent times the prefecture has had good developments.

Bibliography4 works

BIBL.: AAS, 35 (1943), pp. 249-50, 265; MC, 1950, p. 187; Catholic Directory of East Africa, Mombasa 1950, pp. 101-102; Arch. di Prop. Fide, pos. prot. nn. 593/43, 53/51.

Carlo Corvo

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Mbulu, Apostolic Prefecture of

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