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2025 MCP WOTE DIOCESE
Wote Diocese in Kenya was erected by The Holy Father, Pope Francis, on July 22, 2023 with territory dismembered from the diocese of Machakos, making it a suffragan of the metropolitan archdiocese of Nairobi, Kenya. At the same time, the Pope appointed Rt. Rev. Paul Kariuki Njiru as its first Bishop. Until his appointment, Bishop Kariuki was the Bishop of the Diocese of Embu. The news of the erection of the Diocese of Wote and appointment of Bishop Kariuki was officially published in L’Osservatore Romano in Rome on July 22nd, 2023 at 12:00pm Rome time. The Apostolic Nuncio to Kenya and South Sudan, His Excellency Archbishop Bert van Megen, also sent an official communication to the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB) communicating of the erection and appointment.

THE DIOCESE OF WOTE
Wote is the capital and largest town of Makueni County. Makueni County (Wote Diocese) borders Machakos to the North, Kitui to the East, Taita Taveta to the South and Kajiado to the West and covers an area of 8,008.9 square km (3,092.64 square miles). 

Makueni County has a population of 987,653 according to 2019 census out of which 388,946 (39.4%) is Catholic. With a total of 31 parishes there are 99 priests (90 Diocesan and 9 Religious Priests) an average of 3,928 faithful per priest. There are 36 Major Seminarians and 732 Catechists.

With 39.4% of the population Catholic, there is a great potential to evangelize the rest of the population and Wote Diocese wishes to implement several strategies including:

1. Priests to make appeals to active young adults and teens to consider a vocation to the priesthood or consecrated life at masses in the 31 parishes and at high schools when they are invited to offer mass at such schools.
2. Wote Diocese to open new parishes and out stations to evangelize the communities at those locations.
3. Wote Diocese and clergy to recruit and train catechists/lay Catholic leaders to make an outreach to non-Catholics and lead the faithful to prayer on Sundays when a priest is not available.
4. Since Makueni (Wote Diocese lacks many human services) Wote Diocese is seeking funds to support health programs like Mother and Child Health program at specific locations in the diocese to reduce maternal and child deaths.Women carrying buckets of water long distances. 
5. Raise funds to provide potable water to households and livestock to reduce water-borne diseases currently spread from existing water sources. Nutrition meeting with mothers and children. 
6. Raise funds to provide food to famine-stricken and vulnerable population in the diocese on one part and on the other provide drought-resistant farm inputs to farmers and teach improved food production technologies to increase food production, reduce food shortages and eliminate famine.

Wote Diocese aims to provide humanitarian assistance spelled out under 4,5 and 6 above to the needy in Makueni County irrespective of their religious affiliations.