Diocesan profile South African Defence Force
Diocese of South African Defence Force
Latin Church
The Military Ordinariate of the South African Defence Force is a Latin-rite military ordinariate, established as a military vicariate on 17 May 1951 and raised to ordinariate on 21 July 1986. It is immediately subject to the Holy See, headquartered in Pretoria, and has been held since 30 April 2019 by Archbishop Dabula Anthony Mpako of Pretoria as military ordinary.
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- Established
- 1951
- Priests
- 2
Parishes and churches
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The bishop
- Bishop
- Dabula Anthony Mpako
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The cathedral
St. Ignatius de Loyola Cathedral stands in South African Defence Force, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
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History
Catholics serving in the South African National Defence Force, together with their families, receive pastoral care from this military ordinariate of the Catholic Church, the Military Ordinariate of the South African (National) Defence Force (or of South Africa). It belongs to no ecclesiastical province, being exempt, that is, immediately subject to the Holy See.