Vicar Apostolic of Southern Nyanza (12 December 1912 – 15 January 1915)
Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of South Nyanza (1 January 1910 –12 December 1912)
Titular Bishop of Capsa (1 January 1910 – 12 April 1950)
Orders
Ordination
3 June 1882
Consecration
20 January 1910 by Bishop Wilhelmus van de Ven
Personal details
Born
(1858-03-22)22 March 1858
's-Hertogenbosch, North Brabant, Netherlands
Died
12 April 1950(1950-04-12) (aged 92) Rubya, West Lakes Region, Tanganyika Territory
Nationality
Dutch
Denomination
Catholic
Joseph Francis Marie Sweens (22 March 1858 – 12 April 1950), was a Dutch Roman Catholic missionary bishop who served as the Vicar Apostolic of South Nyanza in German East Africa, later in the British-administered Tanganyika Territory, now Tanzania.
Joseph Francis Marie Sweens (22 March 1858 – 12 April 1950), was a Dutch Roman Catholic missionary bishop who served as the Vicar Apostolic of South Nyanza...
December 1912, Jean-Joseph Hirth was appointed the first Vicar Apostolic of Kivu. He was succeeded at Southern Victoria Nyanza by JosephSweens. Hirth established...
to his old residence at Kashozi, leaving Sweens to live at the seminary of Rubya. On 12 December 1912 Sweens succeeded Hirth as Vicar Apostolic of South...
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what is now Tanzania. In 1928 the Vicar Apostolic of South Nyanza, JosephSweens, was saying his breviary in the church at Rutabo when it collapsed in...
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his old residence at Kashozi, leaving Sweens to live at the seminary of Rubya. For the next three years Sweens visited the different stations of the diocese...
1912, when the new Apostolic Vicariate of Kivu was formed, and Bishop JosephSweens became responsible for the Southern Victoria Nyanza vicariate and for...
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