Chinhoyi diocese
| Chinhoyi diocese | |
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Country | Zimbabwe |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Harare |
| Diocesan bishop | Raymond Tapiwa Mupa CSsR |
| Emeritus diocesan bishop | Dieter Scholz SJ |
| founding | 1973 |
| surface | 56,000 km² |
| Parishes | 19 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Residents | 3,000,540 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Catholics | 214,400 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| proportion of | 7.1% |
| Diocesan priest | 36 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Religious priest | 6 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 5.105 |
| Permanent deacons | 2 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Friars | 8 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Religious sisters | 80 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | English |
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Chinhoyi ( Latin Dioecesis Chinhoyiensis , English Diocese of Chinhoyi ) is in Zimbabwe situated Roman Catholic diocese based in Chinhoyi .
history
The mission was entrusted to the German Jesuits in 1958. Pope Paul VI founded the Apostolic Prefecture of Sinoia with the Apostolic Constitution Si evangelicos fructus on December 17, 1973 from cession of the Archdiocese of Salisbury .
On June 25, 1982, it took the name, Chinhoyi Apostolic Prefecture. With the bull Cum Praefectura she was raised to the rank of diocese on October 28, 1985 and it was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Harare as a suffragan diocese.
territory
The diocese of Chinhoyi includes the districts of Guruve, Centenary, Mount Darwin and Rushinga (north of the Mazowe River ) in the Mashonaland Central Province and the Makonde, Hurungwe and Kariba districts (east of the Sanyo River ) in the Mashonaland West Province .
Ordinaries
Apostolic Prefect of Sinoia
- Helmut Reckter SJ (February 22, 1974– June 25, 1982)
Apostolic Prefect of Chinhoyi
- Helmut Reckter SJ (June 25, 1982– October 28, 1985)
Bishops of Chinhoyi
- Helmut Reckter SJ (October 28, 1985– March 10, 2004)
- Dieter Scholz SJ (April 6, 2006– February 17, 2016)
- Raymond Tapiwa Mupa CSsR (since December 30, 2017)
statistics
| year | population | priest | Permanent deacons | Religious | Parishes | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Catholics | Residents | % | Total number | Diocesan priest | Religious priest | Catholics per priest | Friars | Religious sisters | |||
| 1980 | 37,000 | 634,000 | 5.8 | 20th | 20th | 1,850 | 2 | 31 | 41 | 16 | |
| 1990 | 48.097 | 899,000 | 5.4 | 23 | 6th | 17th | 2,091 | 2 | 25th | 71 | 16 |
| 2000 | 69,853 | 1,769,853 | 3.9 | 30th | 19th | 11 | 2,328 | 2 | 9 | 88 | 16 |
| 2003 | 71,000 | 1,771,000 | 4.0 | 29 | 19th | 10 | 2,448 | 2 | 15th | 82 | 17th |
| 2004 | 79.101 | 1,679,101 | 4.7 | 31 | 21st | 10 | 2,551 | 2 | 16 | 76 | 18th |
| 2007 | 85.259 | 1,905,259 | 4.4 | 21st | 13 | 8th | 4,059 | 2 | 14th | 70 | 18th |
| 2013 | 110,000 | 2,235,000 | 4.9 | 37 | 31 | 6th | 2,972 | 2 | 11 | 72 | 19th |
See also
Web links
- Entry for the Diocese of Chinhoyi on catholic-hierarchy.org
- Entry on the Diocese of Chinhoyi on gcatholic.org (English)