Catholic Church in Zimbabwe

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Catholic Church
in Zimbabwe
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Zimbabwean Diocese' boundaries. Harare and Bulawayo are metropolitan Archdiocese
Type National polity
Classification Catholic
Orientation Latin
Scripture Bible
Theology Catholic theology
Polity Episcopal
Governance Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops' Conference
Pope Pope Francis
ZCBC President Robert Ndlovu
Apostolic Nuncio Paolo Rudelli
Region Zimbabwe
Language English, Shona, Ndebele
Founder Jesuits
Origin1887
Members1,367,669
Official website http://www.zcbc.co.zw/

The Catholic Church in Zimbabwe is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome.

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According to the 2017 Inter Censal Demography Survey by the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency 8.0% of the population of Zimbabwe were Roman Catholic; overall, 84% of the country had a Christian background. [1]

There were 1,145,000 Catholics in the country (about 9% of the total population) in 2005. [2] By 2017, the censal survey had the number of Catholics at 1.2 million. [1]

In 2020, Catholic numbers were up to 2 million people, with 600 priests and 1,000 nuns serving across 267 parishes. [3]

Pius Ncube, the former archbishop of Bulawayo, was an outspoken critic of the then government of Robert Mugabe, who is also a Catholic.

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