Suffragan diocese Keetmanshoop, Namibia
Diocese of Keetmanshoop
Keetmanshoopen(sis)
Latin Church
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.
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- Established
- 1994
- Catholics
- 42,570
- Priests
- 12
- Territory
- 264,110 km²
Parishes and churches
18 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
- Holy Trinity ParishKarasburgView parish
- Maria Immaculata ParishHoliday houseView parish
- Mater Dolorosa ParishAroabView parish
- Most Holy Name of Jesus ParishGibeonView parish
- Our Lady of Good Cousel ParishHeirachabisView parish
- Our Lady of Perpetual Help ParishKeetmanshoopView parish
- Our Lady of the Scared Heart ParishOSFS HARDAPView parish
- R.C. Mission Witkrans, St. Francis Xavier ParishWitkransView parish
- Sacred Heart ParishRehobothView parish
- St Joseph ParishGabisView parish
- St Peter Claver ParishBethanieView parish
- St Teresa of the Child Jesus ParishAusView parish
- St. Andrew R.C. ParishAranosView parish
- St. Anne’s ParishOranjemundView parish
- St. Francis de Sales ParishWarmbadView parish
- St. Konrad ParishStamprietView parish
- St. Leoni Aviat ParishNoordoewerView parish
- St. Theresa of the Child Jesus ParishTsesView parish
This is our recorded coverage, not an official diocesan parish count. Confirm service times with the parish before travelling.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Willem Christiaans
- Born
- 12 February 1961
- Birthplace
- Gabis
- Institute
- OBLATI DI S. FRANCESCO DI SALES
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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.
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.