Tanzania Episcopal Conference

The TEC consists of the following institutions: the Plenary Assembly, the Permanent Council, the Secretary-General, eight departments, three research units, eight commissions. The authority and responsibility for managing the activities of TEC are granted Plenary Assembly, composed of all members, which meets once a year and is chaired by the President of the Conference. The management of the TEC is instead assigned to the Permanent Council, assisted by the Secretariat General. The Permanent Council is composed of the President of the Presiding Bishop of TEC and the Departments of TEC. The duties of the Secretary General are to organize the work of the Plenary Assembly, to implement its decisions, to liaise between the dioceses of the country.

The TEC is then composed of eight departments (finance, pastoral, health, charity, communications, lay apostolate, education and seminars, liturgy), three units (including the ecclesiastical charge of building) and eight Commissions (armed forces and prisons, Migrants, Theology, Canon Law, Justice and Peace, Ecumenism, Consecrated Life).

1969–1970: Placidus Nkalanga, Bishop of Bukoba

1970-–976: James Dominic Sangu, Bishop of Mbeya

1976–1982: Mario Epifanio Abdallah Mgulunde, Bishop of Iringa

1982–1988: Anthony Mayala, Bishop of Musoma

1988–1994: Josaphat Louis Lebulu, Bishop of Same

1994–2000: Justin Tetmu Samba, Bishop of Musoma

2000–2006: Severine Niwemugizi, Bishop of Rulenge-Ngara

2006–2012: Jude Thaddeus Ruwa'ichi, Archbishop of Mwanza

2012–2018: Tarcisius Ngalalekumtwa, Bishop of Iringa

2018 – present: Gervas John Mwasikwabhila Nyaisonga, Archbishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mbeya

• http://www.rc.net/tanzania/tec/index.htm
• http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/country/TZ.htm
• http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/country/tz.html