Diocese of Mohale’s Hoek
Mohaleshoeken(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Mohale’s Hoek, Lesotho
The Diocese of Mohale's Hoek is a Latin Church diocese in southern Lesotho, erected on 10 November 1977. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Maseru.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 10 November 1977
- Latin
- Mohaleshoeken(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001002260
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 306,248
- Population
- 533,595
- Catholic share
- 57.4%
- Priests
- 19
- Catholics per priest
- 16,118
- Extent
- 5,799 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 53
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
- John Joale Tlhomola
- Born
- 12 March 1966
- Birthplace
- Pulane Ha Mosiuoa
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. Patrick's Cathedral stands in Mohale’s Hoek, 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 Maseru
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Maseru.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of MaseruMaseru
- Diocese of LeribeLeribe
- Diocese of Qacha’s NekQacha’s Nek
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
In Lesotho, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mohale's Hoek (Latin: Mohaleshoeken(sis)) is seated in the city of Mohale’s Hoek and forms part of the ecclesiastical province of Maseru.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Bishop's Court Mohlakeng, P.O. Box 88, Mohale’s Hoek 800, Lesotho
- Telephone
- 58.047.361
- [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].