Diocese of Keetmanshoop
Keetmanshoopen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Keetmanshoop, Namibia
The Diocese of Keetmanshoop is a Latin Rite diocese in southern Namibia, originating as the Apostolic Prefecture of Great Namaqualand in 1909 and promoted to a diocese on 14 March 1994. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Windhoek, and its bishop since 2018 is Willem Christiaans, O.S.F.S.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 14 March 1994
- Latin
- Keetmanshoopen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001001826
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 42,570
- Population
- 137,675
- Catholic share
- 30.9%
- Priests
- 12
- Catholics per priest
- 3,548
- Extent
- 264,110 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.2
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
- Willem Christiaans
- Born
- 12 February 1961
- Birthplace
- Gabis
- Institute
- OBLATI DI S. FRANCESCO DI SALES
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
St. Stanislaus Cathedral stands in Keetmanshoop, 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 Windhoek
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Windhoek.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of WindhoekWindhoek
- Diocese of RunduRundu
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
St. Stanislaus Cathedral in the city of Keetmanshoop is the episcopal seat of the Diocese of Keetmanshoop (Latin: Keetmanshoopen(sis)), a suffragan see in the Latin Rite ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan of Windhoek in Namibia. The diocese nonetheless remains dependent on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
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].