Diocese of Dundee
Dundeen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Dundee, South Africa
The Diocese of Dundee is a Latin Church diocese in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, suffragan to the Archdiocese of Durban. It originated as the Apostolic Prefecture of Volksrust in 1958 and was promoted to a diocese in 1982.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 19 November 1982
- Latin
- Dundeen(sis)
- Patron
- St. Francis of Assisi
- Annuario code
- 001001332
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 75,375
- Population
- 1,711,715
- Catholic share
- 4.4%
- Priests
- 28
- Catholics per priest
- 2,692
- Extent
- 50,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 1.5
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
- Graham Rose
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 St. Francis of Assisi stands in Dundee, 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 Durban
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Durban.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of DurbanDurban
- Diocese of EshoweEshowe
- Diocese of KokstadKokstad
- Diocese of MariannhillMariannhill
- Diocese of MthathaMthatha
- Diocese of UmzimkuluUmzimkulu
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Within the ecclesiastical province of Durban in South Africa lies the Latin Catholic Diocese of Dundee (Latin: Dundeen(sis)), located in the city of Dundee.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Postnet Suite 95, P.O. Box x6603, Newcastle 2940, South Africa
- Telephone
- [034]312.65.91
- [email protected]
This see keeps no website of its own, so its chancery is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.
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 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
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].