Archdiocese of Cape Town

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Archdiocese of Cape Town
Basic data
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
St. Mary's Cathedral Cape Town

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

Archbishops of Cape Town

See also

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