Diocese of Gokwe
Gokven(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Gokwe, Zimbabwe
The Diocese of Gokwe is a Latin Church suffragan diocese in Zimbabwe, in the ecclesiastical province of Harare. Bishop Eusebius Jelous Nyathi was appointed on 23 June 2023.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 17 June 1991
- Latin
- Gokven(sis)
- Patron
- St. Paul
- Annuario code
- 001001500
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 79,800
- Population
- 648,000
- Catholic share
- 12.3%
- Priests
- 26
- Catholics per priest
- 3,069
- Extent
- 26,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 3.1
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
- Eusebius Jelous Nyathi
- Born
- 2 August 1974
- Birthplace
- Hwange
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
de San Juan stands in Gokwe, 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 Harare
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Harare.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of HarareHarare
- Diocese of ChinhoyiChinhoyi
- Diocese of MutareMutare
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
In the city of Gokwe in Zimbabwe, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gokwe (Latin: Gokven(sis)) serves as a suffragan diocese within the ecclesiastical province of Harare.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Bishop’s House, P.O. Box 90, Stand N. 3376, Sasame 2, Gokwe, Zimbabwe
- Telephone
- [059]2396; fax 2382
- [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].