Diocese of Torit, South Sudan 🇸🇸

Continent: Eastern and Central Africa

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Torit / Toriten(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Juba

Neighbouring Dioceses: Juba (←), Malakal (↑), Jimma–Bonga (↗), Soddo (↗), Lodwar (→), Kotido (↘), Gulu (↓)

Depends on: Dicastery for Evangelisation

Celebrations

Liturgical Calendar (Universal) 📅

History

1983.05.02: Established as Diocese of Torit / Toriten(sis) (Latin) (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Juba and became suffragan of Juba)

Present Prelates

Bishop (2022.11.08 – ...):

Bishop Emmanuel Bernardino Lowi Napeta (52)

Monsignors (1)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Torit (Roman Rite)

Bishop Emmanuel Bernardino Lowi Napeta (52)
(2022.11.08 – ...)

Bishop of Torit (South Sudan)

Born:	1973.12.19 (Kapoeta, South Sudan)
Ordained Priest:	2004.10.24
Consecrated Bishop:	2023.01.15

Priest of Khartoum (Sudan) (2004.10.24 – 2022.11.08)

Bishop of Torit (South Sudan) (2022.11.08 – ...)

Archbishop Stephen Ameyu Martin Mulla (62) (later Cardinal)
(Apostolic Administrator 2020.03.22 – 2022.11.08)

Bishop Stephen Ameyu Martin Mulla (62) (later Cardinal)
(2019.01.03 – 2019.12.12)

Cardinal-Priest of S. Gemma Galgani
Metropolitan Archbishop of Juba (South Sudan)
President of Conference of Bishops of Sudan and South Sudan

Joy in the eternal Word made flesh

Born:	1964.01.10 (Ido, South Sudan)
Ordained Priest:	1991.04.21
Consecrated Bishop:	2019.03.03
Created Cardinal:	2023.09.30

Priest of Torit (South Sudan) (1991.04.21 – 2019.01.03)

Bishop of Torit (South Sudan) (2019.01.03 – 2019.12.12)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Juba (South Sudan) (2019.12.12 – ...)

Vice-President of Conference of Bishops of Sudan and South Sudan (2020.01 – 2024.01)

Apostolic Administrator of Torit (South Sudan) (2020.03.22 – 2022.11.08)

Apostolic Administrator of Wau (South Sudan) (2020.09.21 – 2020.11.18)

Cardinal-Priest of S. Gemma Galgani (2023.09.30 [2023.12.10] – ...)

President of Conference of Bishops of Sudan and South Sudan (2024.01 – ...)

Msgr. Thomas Oliha Attiyah, A.J.
(Apostolic Administrator 2013.05 – 2019.01.03)

Bishop Akio Johnson Mutek
(2007.06.09 – 2013.03.18)

Born:	1958.01.02 (Lodwara Tala, Sudan)
Ordained Priest:	1988.12.18
Consecrated Bishop:	1999.08.15
Died:	2013.03.18 († 55)

Priest of Torit (South Sudan) (1988.12.18 – 1999.05.18)

Titular Bishop of Suava (1999.05.18 – 2007.06.09)

Auxiliary Bishop of Torit (South Sudan) (1999.05.18 – 2007.06.09)

Bishop of Torit (South Sudan) (2007.06.09 – 2013.03.18)

Bishop Paride Taban
(1983.07.02 – 2004.02.07)

Born:	1936 (Opari, Sudan)
Ordained Priest:	1964.05.24
Consecrated Bishop:	1980.05.04
Died:	2023.11.01 (Nairobi, Kenya † 86)

Priest of Juba (South Sudan) (1964.05.24 – 1980.01.28)

Titular Bishop of Tadamata (1980.01.28 – 1983.07.02)

Auxiliary Bishop of Juba (South Sudan) (1980.01.28 – 1983.07.02)

Bishop of Torit (South Sudan) (1983.07.02 – 2004.02.07)

Former Prelates

Auxiliary Bishop: Bishop Akio Johnson Mutek (1999.05.18 – 2007.06.09)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul, Torit, Eastern Equatoria

Juba (←), Malakal (↑), Jimma–Bonga (↗), Soddo (↗), Lodwar (→), Kotido (↘), Gulu (↓)

Statistics (2017.12.31)

Area: 82,542 km²

Population: 1,247,000 Catholics (68.6% of 1,817,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 20 parishes, 6 missions

Personnel: 57 priests (36 diocesan, 21 religious), 40 religious (24 brothers, 16 sisters), 10 seminarians