Diocese of Jinja, Uganda 🇺🇬

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Name: Jinja / Gingian(us) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Tororo

Neighbouring Dioceses: Lugazi (←), Tororo (→)

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1966.08.05: Established as Diocese of Jinja / Gingian(us) (Latin) (from the suppressed Metropolitan Archdiocese of Rubaga and became suffragan of Kinshasa)
1999.01.02: Became suffragan of Tororo

Bishop:	vacant
Apostolic Administrator (2025.10.29 – ...):	Archbishop Emmanuel Obbo, A.J. (73) Metropolitan Archbishop of Tororo (Uganda)

Bishops of Jinja (Roman Rite)

Archbishop Emmanuel Obbo, A.J. (73)
(Apostolic Administrator 2025.10.29 – ...)

Bishop Charles Martin Wamika
(2010.03.02 – 2025.10.22)

Priest of Tororo (Uganda) (1979.09.22 – 1993.10.18)

Titular Bishop of Tacapæ (1993.10.18 – 2010.03.02)

Auxiliary Bishop of Tororo (Uganda) (1993.10.18 – 2010.03.02)

Bishop of Jinja (Uganda) (2010.03.02 – 2025.10.22)

Bishop Joseph Benard Willigers, M.H.M.
(1967.07.13 – 2010.03.02)

Bishop of Jinja (Uganda) (1967.07.13 – 2010.03.02)

Lugazi (←), Tororo (→)

Area: 8,917 km²

Population: 960,100 Catholics (20.2% of 4,750,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 33 parishes, 2 missions

Personnel: 149 priests (87 diocesan, 62 religious), 719 religious (364 brothers, 355 sisters), 107 seminarians