Diocese of Gokwe
Gokven(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Gokwe, Zimbabwe
The Diocese of Gokwe is a Latin Church suffragan diocese in Zimbabwe, in the ecclesiastical province of Harare. Bishop Eusebius Jelous Nyathi was appointed on 23 June 2023.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 17 June 1991
- Latin
- Gokven(sis)
- Patron
- St. Paul
- Annuario code
- 001001500
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 79,800
- Population
- 648,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 12.3%
- Priests
- 26
- Catholics per priest
- 3,069
- Extent
- 26,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 3.1
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
- Eusebius Jelous Nyathi
- Born
- 2 August 1974
- Birthplace
- Hwange
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
Catedral de San Juan stands in Gokwe, 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 Harare
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Harare.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of HarareHarare
- Diocese of ChinhoyiChinhoyi
- Diocese of MutareMutare
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
In the city of Gokwe in Zimbabwe, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gokwe (Latin: Gokven(sis)) serves as a suffragan diocese within the ecclesiastical province of Harare.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Bishop’s House, P.O. Box 90, Stand N. 3376, Sasame 2, Gokwe, Zimbabwe
- Telephone
- [059]2396
- diogokwe@gmail.com
This see keeps no website of its own, so the address of its diocesan offices 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.
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Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.