Diocese of Gaborone
Diocese of Gaborone | |
Basic data | |
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Country | Botswana |
Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Pretoria |
Diocesan bishop | Franklyn Nubuasah SVD |
Emeritus diocesan bishop | Valentine Tsamma Seane |
founding | 1959 |
surface | 174,821 km² |
Parishes | 25 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Residents | 1,105,965 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Catholics | 90,238 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
proportion of | 8.2% |
Diocesan priest | 13 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Religious priest | 31 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Catholics per priest | 2,051 |
Permanent deacons | 4 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Friars | 33 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Religious sisters | 48 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
rite | Roman rite |
Liturgical language |
English Setswana |
cathedral | Christ the King Cathedral |
Website | gaboronediocese.org |
The Diocese of Gaborone (Latin Dioecesis Gaboronensis , English Diocese of Gaborone ) is an in Botswana situated Roman Catholic diocese based in Gaborone .
history
Pope John XXIII founded the Apostolic Constitution Cum Venerabiles Fratres the Apostolic Prefecture of Bechuanaland out of territory of the dioceses Bulawayo , Kimberley and the Apostolic Vicariate of Windhoek on April 2, 1959. It originally encompassed the entire territory of the Protectorate .
With the Apostolic Constitution Sanctae Ecclesiae it was raised on August 5, 1966 to the diocese of Gaberones, which was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Bloemfontein as a suffragan diocese. On April 7, 1970, it took on its current name.
It lost part of its territory on June 27, 1998 to the Vicariate Apostolic Francistown and on June 5, 2007 it was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Pretoria as a suffragan diocese.
Ordinaries
Apostolic Prefect of Bechuanaland
- Urban Charles Joseph Murphy CP (April 24, 1959 - August 5, 1966)
Bishop of Gaberones
- Urban Charles Joseph Murphy CP (August 5, 1966 - April 7, 1970)
Bishops of Gaborone
- Urban Charles Joseph Murphy CP (April 7, 1970 - February 28, 1981)
- Boniface Tshosa Setlalekgosi (November 30, 1981 - February 5, 2009)
- Valentine Tsamma Seane (February 5, 2009 - August 9, 2017)
- Franklyn Nubuasah SVD (since June 6, 2019)
See also
Web links
- Entry on the diocese of Gaborone on catholic-hierarchy.org (English)
- Entry on the Diocese of Gaborone on gcatholic.org (English)