Diocese of Queenstown
| Diocese of Queenstown | |
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Country | South Africa |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Cape Town |
| Diocesan bishop | Sedis vacancy |
| founding | 1925 |
| surface | 25,000 km² |
| Residents | 2,540,760 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| Catholics | 57,700 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| proportion of | 2.3% |
| Diocesan priest | 12 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| Religious priest | 10 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 2,623 |
| Permanent deacons | 8 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| Friars | 12 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| Religious sisters | 20 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language |
Afrikaans English |
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Queenstown ( lat. : Dioecesis Civitatis Reginae seu Queenstovensis ) is in South Africa situated Roman Catholic diocese based in Queenstown .
history
The diocese was founded on March 29, 1938 from the cession of the mission "Sui Iuris" of Queenstown as Apostolic Prefecture . On April 9, 1948, the elevation to the Apostolic Vicariate took place . On January 11, 1951, today's diocese of Queenstown was founded and subordinated to the Archdiocese of Cape Town as a suffragan .
Ordinaries
Apostolic Prefects
- Johannes Baptist Rosenthal SAC , 1940–1948
Vicars Apostolic
- Johannes Baptist Rosenthal SAC , 1948–1951
Bishops
- Johannes Baptist Rosenthal SAC , 1951–1972
- Johannes Baptist Rosner SAC, 1972–1984
- Herbert Nikolaus Lenhof SAC, 1984-2009
-
Dabula Anthony Mpako , 2011–2019, then Archbishop of Pretoria
- Sedis vacancy since April 30, 2019