Roman Catholic Diocese of Keetmanshoop

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Diocese of Keetmanshoop

Dioecesis Keetmanshoopensis
Location
CountryFlag of Namibia.svg  Namibia
Metropolitan Windhoek
Statistics
Area264,110 km2 (101,970 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics
(as of 2004)
137,675
38,356 (27.9%)
Information
Rite Latin Rite
Cathedral St. Stanislaus Cathedral
Current leadership
Pope Francis
Bishop Willem Christiaans, O.S.F.S
Bishops emeritus Philipp Pöllitzer, O.M.I.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Keetmanshoop (Latin : Keetmanshoopen(sis)) is a suffragan diocese in the Latin Rite Ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan of Windhoek in Namibia, yet depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.

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Its cathedral episcopal see is St. Stanislaus Cathedral, in the city of Keetmanshoop.

Statistics

As per 2015, it pastorally served 42,570 Catholics (23.6% of 180,000 total population) on 264,110 km2 in 11 parishes and 32 missions with 16 priests (3 diocesan, 13 religious), 13 deacons, 65 lay religious (17 brothers, 48 sisters) and 2 seminarists.

History

Bishops

(all Roman rite, so far members of a missionary congregation)

Apostolic Prefects of Great Namaqualand
Apostolic Vicars of Great Namaqualand
Apostolic Vicars of Keetmanshoop
Suffragan Bishops of Keetmanshoop

Coadjutor Bishop

See also

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