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), Singida (detached partly from the Vicariate of Tabora and partly from the Prefecture of Dodoma), and M. (detached partly from the Vicariate of Tabora and partly from the Vicariate of Kilimanjaro).
It has an area of 60,000 sq. km. with a population of 450,000, of whom 10,000 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. In recent times especially, the prefecture has seen good development.