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The Our Lady of Victories Cathedral [1] [2] also known as the Cathedral of Maseru, is a Catholic Church [3] located in the city of Maseru, [4] Lesotho.. The church is governed by the Roman or Latin rite and functions as the headquarters of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Maseru (Archidioecesis Maseruena) which was raised to its current status in 1961 by the Bull "Etsi priors" of Pope John XXIII.
Most members of the BNP are practicing Catholics. The BNP ruled the country from independence in 1966 until 1985 when it was overthrown in a military coup. The then-opposition Basutoland Congress Party (BCP) historically has been aligned with the Protestant Lesotho Evangelical Church. [5] There are 4 dioceses including one archdiocese: Maseru ...
Bishops of Maseru. Joseph Delphis Des Rosiers, OMI (11 January 1951 – 3 January 1961), appointed Bishop of Qacha’s Nek; see above; Archbishops of Maseru. Emanuel Mabathoana, OMI (3 January 1961 – 20 September 1966) Alfonso Liguori Morapeli, OMI (13 April 1967 – 17 May 1989) Bernard Mohlalisi, OMI (11 June 1990 – 30 June 2009) [1]
1.1.1 Ecclesiastical Province of Maseru. 2 External links. ... The Roman Catholic Church in Lesotho is composed of 1 ecclesiastical province and 3 suffragan dioceses.
Lesotho: Metropolitan: Maseru: Statistics; Area: 11,409 km 2 (4,405 sq mi) Population- Total- Catholics ... Villa Maria Catholic Church at Mokanametsong, Quthing
The Catholic population is served by the province of the Metropolitan Archbishop of Maseru and his three suffragans (the bishops of Leribe, Mohale's Hoek and Qacha's Nek), who also form the national episcopal conference. Christianity arrived in Lesotho from French missions at the invitation of King Moshoeshoe I in the 1830s. [8]
In the official biography of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who was the Bishop of Lesotho in the late 1970s, the difficulty of travel around the mountainous central region of Lesotho is illustrated by a detailed account of the Bishop's journey from his official residence in Maseru to St James's Hospital in Mantšonyane. [1]
The Diocese of Lesotho is a diocese in the Anglican Church of Southern Africa. It comprises the entire nation of Lesotho. It is divided in three archdeaconries, Central Lesotho, Northern Lesotho and Southern Lesotho. The former bishop is Adam Taaso, in office since 2008 until 2020. The Right Revd Dr Vicentia Kgabe was appointed by the Synod of ...