Archdiocese of Cape Town
Archdiocese of Cape Town | |
Basic data | |
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Country | South Africa |
Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Cape Town |
Diocesan bishop | Stephen Brislin |
Auxiliary bishop | Sylvester David OMI |
Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus | Reginald Michael Cawcutt |
Vicar General | Peter-John Pearson Clifford Charles Stokes |
surface | 30,827 km² |
Dean's offices | 5 (3.01.2009) |
Parishes | 75 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Residents | 4,321,101 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Catholics | 248,847 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
proportion of | 5.8% |
Diocesan priest | 71 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Religious priest | 56 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Catholics per priest | 1,959 |
Permanent deacons | 52 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Friars | 67 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Religious sisters | 159 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
rite | Roman rite |
Liturgical language | English |
cathedral | St. Mary of the Flight into Egypt |
address | Cathedral Place 12 Bouquet Street Cape Town 8001 South Africa |
Website | catholic-ct.org.za/ |
Suffragan dioceses |
Diocese of Aliwal Diocese of De Aar Diocese of Oudtshoorn Diocese of Port Elizabeth Diocese of Queenstown |
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cape Town ( lat. Archidioecesis Civitatis capitis , Engl. Archdiocese of Cape Town ) is one in South Africa located diocese of the Roman Catholic Church , based in Cape Town ( Western Cape ).
history
From 1652 Portuguese missionaries settled on the Cape. Jacob Abraham de Mist , High Commissioner of the Cape Colony , assured freedom of religion and protection by law on July 25, 1804. In 1805 the Dutch missionary Johannes Lansink was appointed the first Apostolic Prefect . A year later, however, he was asked to leave the country by the military administration. It was not until 1818 that Pope Pius VII was able to found the “ Apostolic Vicariate at the Cape of Good Hope and Adjacent Areas” (today: Diocese of Port Elizabeth ), to which the Mauritius archipelago also belonged. The first Apostolic Administrator was the British Benedictine Father Bede Slater OSB, followed by his religious brother William Placid Morris OSB.
On June 6, 1837, Pope Gregory XVI shared the Apostolic Vicariate at the Cape of Good Hope to a part on the Western Cape of Good Hope and on the Eastern Cape of Good Hope. He appointed the Irish Dominican Father Patrick Raymund Griffith OP to be the first administrator of the Western Cape of Good Hope .
Pope Pius IX founded the Apostolic Vicariate on July 30, 1847 at the Western Cape of Good Hope and confirmed Bishop Patrick Raymund Griffith OP in office. On May 24, 1872, the prefecture of the central district on the Cape of Good Hope was separated from the western vicariate. With a decree by Pope Pius XII. of June 13, 1939, the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples (Propaganda Fide) replaced the name of the Vicariate on the western Cape of Good Hope with "Apostolic Vicariate Cape Town" ("Civitatis Capitis").
With the reorganization of the church hierarchy in South Africa by Pius XII. it was raised to an archbishopric on January 11, 1951. Cape Town is the metropolitan seat.
The suffragan dioceses Aliwal , De Aar , Oudtshoorn , Port Elizabeth and Queenstown are assigned to the Archdiocese of Cape Town .
Vicars Apostolic of Cape Town
- Patrick Raymond Griffith OP , 1847-1862
- Thomas Grimley , 1862-1871
- John Leonard , 1872-1908
- John Rooney , 1908-1924
- Bernard Cornelius O'Riley , 1925-1932
- Franziskus Xaver Hennemann SAC , 1933–1949
- Owen McCann , 1950–1951, Archbishop of Cape Town from 1951
Archbishops of Cape Town
- Owen Cardinal McCann , 1951-1984
- Stephen Naidoo CSsR , 1984-1989
- Lawrence Patrick Henry , 1990-2009
- Stephen Brislin , since 2009
See also
Web links
- Entry for the Archdiocese of Cape Town on catholic-hierarchy.org
- Entry on the SACBC website ( Memento from December 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (English)