NYASSA, APOSTOLIC VICARIATE (by courtesy of the Consolata Missionary Fathers) NYERI, APOSTOLIC VICARIATE — Seminary.
NYASSA, APOSTOLIC VICARIATE — Seminary.
NYASSA, APOSTOLIC VICARIATE
of Kenya, entrusted to the Fathers of the Missionary Institute of the Consolata (v.), who arrived in Kenya on 6 June 1902 under the jurisdiction of the Apostolic Vicariate of Zanzibar.
They extended their work among the Kikuyu, at the foot of Mount Kenya, and later among the Ameri, a Nilotic tribe. On 14 September 1905, a small territory detached ZANZIBA (v.) was erected as the *missio sui iuris* of Kenya, which was elevated to an Apostolic Vicariate on 12 July 1909. Its territory was later expanded through successive boundary modifications with the Apostolic Vicariate of Zanzibar (7 July 1916; 20 February 1922; 23 February 1930). On 10 March 1926, it changed its name to the Vicariate of N., Meru (v.), also entrusted to the Consolata Fathers, was detached from II.
In 1940, due to the war, the Italian missionaries were interned, and the vicariate was administered by a Dutch delegate vicar from the Congregation of the Holy Spirit. The Italian missionaries began to return in 1944 but under the direction of the aforementioned delegate vicar, until the arrival of the current Apostolic Vicar, Msgr. Carlo Cavallera J. M. C. (1947).
In the city of N., besides a well-equipped hospital, there is a school for nurses with 15 students, as well as several industrial activities carried out especially by the lay Brothers of the Consolata: numerous indigenous people have learned trades such as carpentry, masonry, blacksmithing, shoemaking, and leatherworking in general. According to the latest statistics from 1950, the Vicariate of N. covers an area of approximately 280,000 sq. km.; of its 750,000 inhabitants, there are 40,180 Catholics, of whom only 1,320 are foreigners and 184 of mixed race, 4,455 catechumens, 45,000 Protestants, 600 Muslims, and 500 Indians; 8 native priests and 44 foreign priests, 3 native lay brothers and 20 foreign lay brothers, 67 native sisters and 75 foreign sisters (Italians from the Institute of the Consolata), a major inter-vicarial seminary and a minor seminary; 87 male catechists and 11 female catechists; 240 male teachers and 38 female teachers; 18 quasi-parishes, 2 main missionary stations and 1 secondary one; 20 churches and 6 chapels; 2 hospitals; 16 dispensaries; 4 kindergartens; a printing press that publishes books in numerous African languages, as well as in Latin and English, and a periodical with a circulation of 3,000 copies; 93 elementary schools; 2 middle schools; 17 vocational schools; 1 normal school. There are thriving Catholic Action associations. In 1950, there were 1,675 adult baptisms.