The Catholic Church in Namibia is part of the
Catholic Church under the universal, direct jurisdiction of the supreme
Vicar of Christ, the
Bishop of Rome and the Catholic world, the
Pope.
As of 2004, there were 246,000 Catholics in
Namibia, about 13.7% of the total population. The country is divided into two dioceses, including one
archdiocese
In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop.
History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associate ...
together with an
Apostolic Vicariate.
See also
*
List of Catholic dioceses in Namibia {{short description, None
The Catholic Church in Namibia, southwest Africa, is solely composed of a Latin hierarchy, united in the national Episcopal Conference of Namibia, comprising one ecclesiastical province, consisting of the Metropolitan Arch ...
References
Sources
Archdiocese of WindhoekCatholic-hierarchy.org
Namibia
Namibia
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