| 词条 | Apostolic Vicariate of Kivu |
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The Apostolic Vicariate of Kivu is the name that was given to two vicariates of the White Fathers, a Catholic missionary society in the Latin Roman Rite Catholic Church. Both vicariates served lands around Lake Kivu during the colonial era. The first vicariate, from 1912 to 1922, served what are now Rwanda and Burundi. The second vicariate, from 1929 to 1952, served territory in the east of the Belgian Congo. Rwanda and BurundiThe missions in Burundi had been under the Apostolic Vicariate of Unyanyembe, while those of Rwanda were under the Apostolic Vicariate of Southern Victoria Nyanza. In 1912 these missions were joined to form the new Apostolic Vicariate of Kivu.{{sfn|Shorter|2011|p=79}} On 12 December 1912, John Joseph Hirth was appointed the first Vicar Apostolic of Kivu.{{sfn|Metropolitan Archdiocese of Bukavu...}} Hirth established his headquarters at Kabgayi, and worked there until his retirement in 1921. By then there were thirty thousand Christians in the Vicariate.{{sfn|Shorter|2011|p=79}} The name was changed to the Apostolic Vicariate of Urundi and Kivu in 1921.{{sfn|Archdiocese of Gitega}} On 25 April 1922 the Apostolic Vicariate of Ruanda was created from the former Apostolic Vicariate of Kivu, led by Bishop Léon-Paul Classe. On 14 February 1952 this was divided into the Apostolic Vicariate of Kabgayi and the Apostolic Vicariate of Nyundo.{{sfn|Diocese of Kabgayi Rwanda}} The Apostolic Vicariate of Urundi was also created on 25 April 1922, serving the territory of what is now Burundi and led by Bishop Julien-Louis-Edouard-Marie Gorju. On 14 July 1949 it was renamed to the Apostolic Vicariate of Kitega, and on 10 November 1959 was elevated to the Archdiocese of Gitega.{{sfn|Archdiocese of Gitega}} CongoThe Apostolic Vicariate of Kivu was restored on 26 December 1929 serving the eastern Belgian Congo, led by Bishop Edoardo Luigi Antonio Leys. He was succeeded in 1944 by Bishop Richard Cleire. On 10 January 1952, after losing territory to the Apostolic Vicariate of Kasongo it was renamed the Apostolic Vicariate of Costermansville, led by Bishop Xavier Geeraerts. On 6 January 1954 this became the Apostolic Vicariate of Bukavu, which on 10 November 1959 was promoted to the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Bukavu.{{sfn|Metropolitan Archdiocese of Bukavu...}} See also
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|title=Archdiocese of Gitega|work=Catholic Hierarchy |accessdate=2013-04-05}}{{Self-published source|date=October 2016}}
|title=Diocese of Kabgayi Rwanda|work=GCatholic.org|accessdate=2013-04-05}}
|title=Metropolitan Archdiocese of Bukavu Congo-Kinshasa|accessdate=2013-04-05}}
|last=Shorter|first=Aylward|title=Les Pères Blancs au temps de la conquête coloniale: Histoire des Missionnaires d'Afrique (1892-1914) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E0oL526RRZsC&pg=PA79|accessdate=2013-03-26 |date=2011-12-01|publisher=KARTHALA Editions|isbn=978-2-8111-0575-4}}{{refend}}{{Subject bar |portal1= Catholicism |portal2= Burundi |portal3= Democratic Republic of the Congo |portal4= Rwanda}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Kivu, Apostolic Vicariate}} 5 : 1912 establishments in Africa|1922 disestablishments in Africa|1929 establishments in Africa|1952 disestablishments in Africa|Apostolic vicariates |
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