St. Stanislaus Cathedral
| Basic data | |
| place | Keetmanshoop , Namibia |
| diocese | Keetmanshoop |
| Building history | |
| construction time | 1954 (1913) - 1956 (1914) |
| Building description | |
| inauguration | June 20, 1956 (January 4, 1914) |
| Function and title | |
| 26 ° 34 '38 " S , 18 ° 7' 49.3" E | |
The St. Stanislaus Cathedral ( English St. Stanislaus Cathedral Church ) in Keetmanshoop has been the Roman Catholic cathedral of the Keetmanshoop diocese in Namibia since 1956 .
The cathedral is under the patronage of St. Stanislaus Kostka .
history
After masses for the 116 Catholics in Keetmanshoop were held in a residential building around 1912, planning for the construction of a chapel began in June 1913 . This was on 4 January 1914 benediziert . Four days later the parish of Saint Stanislaus was founded. After the turmoil of the First World War , the community only resumed planning to build a cathedral in 1942. At the time, Keetmanshoop was the only diocese in southern Africa with a bishop but no cathedral.
The foundation stone for today's church building was laid on May 13, 1954. The altar in the crypt was consecrated on June 17th of the same year . In February 1955 the statue of Our Lady of Fátima was placed in the church tower .
The cathedral was consecrated by Bishop Esser on June 20, 1956. Eight years later, in May 1964, the cathedral received its altar cross , made by the Austrian artist Josef Furthner .
Web links and sources
- Official Site of the Church (English)
- Official website of the Roman Catholic Church in Namibia (English)