Apostolic Vicariate of Southern Victoria Nyanza

Apostolic Vicariate of Southern Victoria Nyanza

Vicariatus Apostolicus Victoriensis–Nyanzensis Meridionalis
Location
CountryGerman East Africa
Information
Established1894–1929

The Apostolic Vicariate of Southern Nyanza (Latin: Vicariatus Apostolicus Victoriensis–Nyanzensis Meridionalis) was a Roman Catholic mission territory in Eastern and Central Africa. It was an apostolic vicariate split out from the larger Vicariate of Nyanza in June 1894. It lost territory to the Apostolic Vicariate of Kivu in 1912, and was divided into the vicariates of Bukoba and Mwanza in 1929.