Tabora, 27 February, 2025 / 6:09 am (ACI Africa).
Pope Francis has appointed Mons. Josaphat Jackson Bududu as Auxiliary Bishop of Tanzania’s Catholic Archdiocese of Tabora, where Protase Cardinal Rugambwa is the Local Ordinary.
The Episcopal appointment of Mons. Bududu, who has been serving as Vicar for Consecrated Life and the Parish Priest of St. Joseph Kipalapala Parish of the Tanzanian Metropolitan See was made public by the Holy See Press Office on Wednesday, February 26.
The Tanzanian-born Bishop-elect, who has been assigned the titular See of Vegesela in Numidia, Italy, was born in March 1977 in Kaliua in Tabora Archdiocese.
He was ordained a Priest for his native Archdiocese on 9 July 2009 after completing his philosophical and theological studies at Kibosho Major Seminary in Tanzania’s Moshi Catholic Diocese and Kipalapala Major Seminary in Tabora Archdiocese, respectively.
As a Priest, Mons. Bududu has served in various capacities, including Parish ministry. The holder of a Doctorate in Spirituality from the Tamil Nadu Institute of Spirituality and St. Peter’s Pontifical Institute in Bangalore, India, has also served as formator at Archbishop Mario Mgulunde Propaedeutic Seminary in Kipalapala.
