Diocese of Port Elizabeth
Portus Elizabethen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Port Elizabeth, South Africa
The Diocese of Port Elizabeth is a Latin Rite diocese in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, erected in 1951. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Cape Town, led by Bishop Vincent Mduduzi Zungu since 2014.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 11 January 1951
- Latin
- Portus Elizabethen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001002636
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 137,689
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
- Vincent Mduduzi Zungu
- Born
- 28 April 1966
- Birthplace
- Mbongolwane
- Institute
- ORDINE FRANCESCANO FRATI MINORI
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. Augustine's Cathedral, Gqeberha stands in Port Elizabeth, 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 Cape Town
A suffragan of Cape Town.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of Cape TownCape Town
- Diocese of AliwalAliwal
- Diocese of De AarDe Aar
- Diocese of OudtshoornOudtshoorn
- Diocese of QueenstownQueenstown
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- 10 Park Lane, Central, Port Elizabeth 6001, South Africa
- Telephone
- [043]733.8415; fax 733.8416
- [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].