Diocese of Soroti, Uganda 🇺🇬

Continent: Eastern and Central Africa

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Soroti / Sorotien(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Tororo

Neighbouring Dioceses: Lira (↖), Moroto (↗), Tororo (↘)

Depends on: Dicastery for Evangelisation

Celebrations

Liturgical Calendar (National) 📅

History

1980.11.29: Established as Diocese of Soroti / Sorotien(sis) (Latin) (from Diocese of Tororo and became suffragan of Kampala)
1999.01.02: Became suffragan of Tororo

Papal Visits

Pope John Paul II (1993.02)

Present Prelates

Bishop (2019.03.19 – ...):

Bishop Joseph Eciru Oliach (55)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Soroti (Roman Rite)

Bishop Joseph Eciru Oliach (55)
(2019.03.19 – ...)

Bishop of Soroti (Uganda)

In vasis fictilibus thesaurum

Born:	1970.08.11 (Gweri, Uganda)
Ordained Priest:	2003.08.09
Consecrated Bishop:	2019.05.25

Priest of Soroti (Uganda) (2003.08.09 – 2019.03.19)

Bishop of Soroti (Uganda) (2019.03.19 – ...)

Archbishop Emmanuel Obbo, A.J. (73)
(Apostolic Administrator 2014.01.02 – 2019.03.19)

Bishop Emmanuel Obbo, A.J. (73) (later Archbishop)
(2007.06.27 – 2014.01.02)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Tororo (Uganda)
Apostolic Administrator of Jinja (Uganda)

Domine doce nos orare et consummare in unum

Born:	1952.10.07 (Nagoke, Uganda)
Ordained Priest:	1986.12.13
Consecrated Bishop:	2007.10.06

Bishop of Soroti (Uganda) (2007.06.27 – 2014.01.02)

Apostolic Administrator of Soroti (Uganda) (2014.01.02 – 2019.03.19)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Tororo (Uganda) (2014.01.02 – ...)

Apostolic Administrator of Jinja (Uganda) (2025.10.29 – ...)

Bishop Erasmus Desiderius Wandera
(1980.11.29 – 2007.06.27)

Virtus in infirmitate perficitur

Born:	1930.04.16 (Dabani, Uganda)
Ordained Priest:	1956.12.27
Consecrated Bishop:	1981.03.29
Died:	2022.12.08 (Mbale, Uganda † 92)

Bishop of Soroti (Uganda) (1980.11.29 – 2007.06.27)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Immaculate Conception Cathedral, Soroti, Soroti, Eastern

Lira (↖), Moroto (↗), Tororo (↘)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 12,921 km²

Population: 1,470,840 Catholics (39.5% of 3,727,880 total)

Pastoral Centres: 51 parishes, 2 missions

Personnel: 79 priests (diocesan), 96 religious (34 brothers, 62 sisters), 51 seminarians