MUSOMA, APOSTOLIC PREFECTURE OF. - It is situated in the north-western part of the territory of Tanganyika, on the south-eastern shore of Lake Victoria; it is entrusted to the Society for Foreign Missions of Maryknoll, and was erected on 24 June 1950 with territory detached from the apostolic vicariate of Musoma-Maswa.

By a decree of the same date there was a modification of boundaries with the apostolic vicariate of Mwanza. It comprises the districts of M. and of North Mara, has an area of about 10,240 sq km and a population of about 254,000 inhabitants.

At the time of its erection it counted 10,100 Catholics, 3,500 catechumens, about 6,000 Protestants and over 230,000 pagans; foreign priests 12, foreign lay brothers 2, foreign sisters 3, major seminarians 1, minor seminarians 20 educated in the Seminary of Mwanza, catechists 83; principal mission stations 4, secondary 85; churches 3, chapels 98. Schools: 4 for boys, 2 for girls; hospitals 1. There is Catholic Action. The Protestants likewise have 4 schools in that territory.

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BIBL.: MC, 1950, p. 187; A Catholic Directory of East Africa, Mombasa 1950, pp. 113-14; Archivio di Prop. Fide, pos. prot. n. 2319/50; AAS, 48 (1951), pp. 65-66.

Carlo Corvo

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