# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/matthias-joseph-isuja
# Generated: 2026-08-15T13:46:36.916Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/matthias-joseph-isuja"
name: "Matthias Joseph Isuja"
slug: "matthias-joseph-isuja"
description: "Matthias Joseph Isuja was a Tanzanian Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Dodoma from 1972 until his age-related retirement in 2005. He was appointed bishop on 26 June 1972 by Pope Paul VI. Bishop Matthias Joseph Isuja died on 13 April 2016 at the age of 87 years, as the Bishop Emeritus of Dodoma, Tanzania."
tagline: "Tanzanian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Dodoma (1929–2016)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Mitre_plain_2.png/330px-Mitre_plain_2.png"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Religious Figures"
  slug: "religious-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Religious Figure"
  slug: "religious-figure"
birthDate: "1929-08-14"
deathDate: "2016-04-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           34.72
  momentum:             15
  historical:           5.267782666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Matthias Joseph Isuja"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ماتياس چوزيف ايسوجا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Matthias Joseph Isuja"
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  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_Joseph_Isuja"
    title: "Matthias Joseph Isuja"
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  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_Joseph_Isuja"
    title: "Matthias Joseph Isuja"
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  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_Joseph_Isuja"
    title: "Matthias Joseph Isuja"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q571629"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump