Diocese of Mariannhill
Collis Mariae seu Mariannhillen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Mariannhill, South Africa
The Diocese of Mariannhill is a Latin Church diocese in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, established as an apostolic vicariate in 1921 and raised to a diocese on 11 January 1951. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Durban.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 11 January 1951
- Latin
- Collis Mariae seu Mariannhillen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001002165
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 329,575
- Population
- 1,819,400
- Catholic share
- 18.1%
- Priests
- 78
- Catholics per priest
- 4,225
- Extent
- 12,612 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 26
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
- Neil Augustine Frank
- Born
- 21 August 1966
- Birthplace
- Pietermaritzburg
- Institute
- MISSIONARI OBLATI DI MARIA IMMACOLATA
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. Joseph's Cathedral stands in Mariannhill, 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 DundeeDundee
- Diocese of EshoweEshowe
- Diocese of KokstadKokstad
- Diocese of MthathaMthatha
- Diocese of UmzimkuluUmzimkulu
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Mariannhill, in South Africa, gives its name to a Latin Catholic diocese (Latin: Collis Mariae/Mariannhillen(sis)) belonging to the ecclesiastical province of Durban.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Bishop’s House, 2 Khanyisa Rise, P.O. Box 11001, Mariannhill 3624, South Africa
- Telephone
- [031]700.2704; fax 700.5600
- [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].