Diocese of Lira, Uganda 🇺🇬

Continent: Eastern and Central Africa

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Lira / Liren(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Gulu

Neighbouring Dioceses: Hoima (↙), Gulu (↖), Moroto (→), Soroti (↘)

Depends on: Dicastery for Evangelisation

Celebrations

Liturgical Calendar (National) 📅

History

1968.07.12: Established as Diocese of Lira / Liren(sis) (Latin) (from Diocese of Gulu and became suffragan of Kampala)
1999.01.02: Became suffragan of Gulu

Present Prelates

Bishop (2018.11.23 – ...):

Bishop Sanctus Lino Wanok (68)

Vice-President of Uganda Episcopal Conference

Ordinaries

Bishops of Lira (Roman Rite)

Bishop Sanctus Lino Wanok (68)
(2018.11.23 – ...)

Bishop of Lira (Uganda)
Vice-President of Uganda Episcopal Conference

Love mercy work

Born:	1957.04.07 (Atyak-Yamo, Uganda)
Ordained Priest:	1986.09.27
Consecrated Bishop:	2011.04.30

Priest of Arua (Uganda) (1986.09.27 – 1996.02.23)

Priest of Nebbi (Uganda) (1996.02.23 – 2011.02.08)

Bishop of Nebbi (Uganda) (2011.02.08 – 2018.11.23)

Bishop of Lira (Uganda) (2018.11.23 – ...)

Vice-President of Uganda Episcopal Conference (2022.11.12 – ...)

Bishop Giuseppe Franzelli, M.C.C.J. (83)
(2005.04.01 – 2018.11.23)

Bishop emeritus of Lira (Uganda)

Born:	1942.04.09 (Roccafranca, Italy)
Ordained Priest:	1967.03.11
Consecrated Bishop:	2005.07.09

Bishop of Lira (Uganda) (2005.04.01 – 2018.11.23)

Bishop Joseph Oyanga
(1989.07.04 – 2003.12.02)

Your will be done

Born:	1936.02.28 (Omoro, Uganda)
Ordained Priest:	1963.05.15
Consecrated Bishop:	1989.10.01
Died:	2018.07.21 (Tororo, Uganda † 82)

Bishop of Lira (Uganda) (1989.07.04 – 2003.12.02)

Bishop Cesare Asili
(1968.07.12 – 1988.10.12)

Born:	1924.09.20 (Moyo, Uganda)
Ordained Priest:	1955.06.05
Consecrated Bishop:	1968.10.27
Died:	1988.10.12 († 64)

Bishop of Lira (Uganda) (1968.07.12 – 1988.10.12)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Cathedral of the Holy Martyrs of Uganda, Lira, Lira, Northern

Hoima (↙), Gulu (↖), Moroto (→), Soroti (↘)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 12,030 km²

Population: 2,042,954 Catholics (62.6% of 3,265,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 35 parishes, 11 missions

Personnel: 81 priests (70 diocesan, 11 religious), 139 religious (12 brothers, 127 sisters), 102 seminarians