Kashozi is the site of a Catholic mission established in German East Africa, now Tanzania.

[1] Joseph Sweens was appointed coadjutor bishop to Hirth on 17 December 1909 and returned to South Nyanza in April 1910.

Hirth returned to his old residence at Kashozi, leaving Sweens to live at the seminary of Rubya.

[5] The White Sisters established themselves at Kashozi, and the parish became widely known for the help that it gave to women.

In October 2012 his body was exhumed and transferred to the renovated Mater Misericordiae Cathedral of Bukoba in a major ceremony attended by many religious and civil dignitaries.