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The Catholic Church in South Africa is part of the worldwide Catholic Church composed of the Latin Church and 23 Eastern Catholic Churches, of which the South African church is under the spiritual leadership of the Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference and the pope in Rome.
St John Vianney Seminary, Pretoria, South Africa, is the National Seminary for the Roman Catholic Church in South Africa. The institution is a training facility and House of Formation under the auspices of the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference (SACBC).
The Catholic hierarchy of South Africa is entirely Latin, composed of five ecclesiastical provinces, each under a Metropolitan Archbishop, with a total of 20 suffragan South African dioceses and an exempt pre-diocesan apostolic vicariate, as well as three suffragans (two dioceses, one apostolic vicariate) from below-mentioned neighbor states (fellow former British colonies).
St. Augustine's Cathedral, [1] also called the Catholic Cathedral of Port Elizabeth, is a Roman Catholic cathedral located on Prospect Hill in the city of Port Elizabeth, [2] part of the Eastern Cape Province on the coast of the African country of South Africa.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Pretoria (Latin: Praetorien(sis)) is a Latin Catholic archdiocese and the Metropolitan See for the ecclesiastical province of Pretoria in South Africa. The cathedral archiepiscopal see of the Archbishop is Sacred Heart Cathedral in Pretoria .
South Regina Mundi ( Latin for "Queen of the World"), [ 1 ] designed by architect Anthony Noel Errol Slaven, is the largest Roman Catholic church in South Africa . It is located in Rockville, Soweto , a populous black urban residential area within the city of Johannesburg .
Prior to 1924 the territory was part of the Kimberly Vicariate. [2]From 1924 to February 12, 1948, it was known as the Kroonstad Vicariate. [2]In February 1948, the Kroonstad Vicariate was split into two separate Vicariates by Papal Decree; the western part with Kroonstad was entrusted to the Dominican Fathers of the Dutch Province, while the eastern part with Bethlehem was entrusted to the ...
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Polokwane (Latin: Polokwanen(sis)) is a diocese located in the city of Polokwane in the ecclesiastical province of Pretoria in South Africa.