Diocese of De Aar
De Aaren(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · De Aar, South Africa
The Diocese of De Aar in South Africa's Northern Cape was erected as an apostolic prefecture in 1953 and promoted to a diocese on April 13, 1967. It is suffragan to Cape Town, and Bishop Adam Leszek Musialek has led it since July 17, 2009.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 13 April 1967
- Latin
- De Aaren(sis)
- Patron
- Our Lady of the Assumption
- Annuario code
- 001001284
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 6,109
- Population
- 164,000
- Catholic share
- 3.7%
- Priests
- 6
- Catholics per priest
- 1,018
- Extent
- 67,248 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.1
of the people living within its bounds
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Adam Musiałek
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption stands in De Aar, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
The province of Cape Town
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Cape Town.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of Cape TownCape Town
- Diocese of AliwalAliwal
- Diocese of OudtshoornOudtshoorn
- Diocese of Port ElizabethPort Elizabeth
- Diocese of QueenstownQueenstown
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Centered on the city of De Aar, within the Pixley ka Seme District Municipality of South Africa, this Latin Catholic diocese (Latin: De Aaren(sis)) belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Cape Town.
What is kept by invitation
The record above is published because it is public: what this see is, when it was erected, who holds its chair, and where it stands among its neighbours.
The working record is not. The chancery's address, telephone and email, the clergy of the see, and the hours of Mass, confession and adoration in the parishes within it are kept for members, and a person reads every request.
Sources
The see's own website · Wikipedia
This record is compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. On the method, see the keeping of the record. Whoever finds an error is asked, in charity, to write: [email protected].