Diocese of Manzini
Diocese of Manzini | |
Basic data | |
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Country | Swaziland |
Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Johannesburg |
Diocesan bishop | José Luís Gerardo Ponce de León |
founding | 1923 |
surface | 17,364 km² |
Parishes | 15 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Residents | 1,119,155 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Catholics | 56,000 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
proportion of | 5% |
Diocesan priest | 14 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Religious priest | 12 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Catholics per priest | 2.154 |
Friars | 15 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Religious sisters | 43 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
rite | Roman rite |
Liturgical language |
Siswati English |
cathedral | Cathedral of Our Lady of Assumption |
Website | www.dioceseofmanzini.org |
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Manzini ( lat. Dioecesis Manziniensis , Engl. Diocese of Manzini ) is in Swaziland situated Roman Catholic diocese , based in Manzini .
history
Pope Pius XI founded on April 19, 1923 from cession of territory of the Apostolic Vicariate Natal as Apostolic Prefecture Swaziland . On March 15, 1939, she was raised to the Apostolic Vicariate and on January 11, 1951 to the diocese of Bremersdorp, which was subordinate to the Archdiocese of Pretoria as a metropolitan diocese. Part of its territory was given to the Apostolic Prefecture Volksrust and on November 12, 1962 another to the Apostolic Prefecture Ingwavuma .
It was given its current name on November 7, 1961. On June 5, 2007, it was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Johannesburg .
Ordinaries
Apostolic Prefect of Swaziland
- Pellegrino Beauties OSM (March 15, 1923-1932)
- Romualdo Migliorini OSM (July 8, 1933-1939)
Vicar Apostolic of Swaziland
- Costantino Maria Attilio Barneschi OSM (March 15, 1939 - January 11, 1951)
Bishop of Bremersdorp
- Costantino Maria Attilio Barneschi OSM (January 11, 1951 - November 7, 1961)
Bishops of Manzini
- Costantino Maria Attilio Barneschi OSM (November 7, 1961 - May 21, 1965)
- Girolamo Maria Casalini OSM (December 18, 1965 - January 24, 1976)
- Aloysius Isaac Mandlenkhosi Zwane (January 24, 1976 - August 10, 1980)
- Louis Ncamiso Ndlovu OSM (July 1, 1985 - August 27, 2012)
- José Luís Gerardo Ponce de León , since November 29, 2013
See also
Web links
- Website of the diocese (English)
- Entry on the Diocese of Manzini on catholic-hierarchy.org (English)
- Entry about the diocese of Manzini on Giga-Catholic (English)