QUEENSTOWN, Diocese of. - It is located in the eastern part of the Union of South Africa and was erected as a mission sui iuris on 20 February 1929 with territory detached from the apostolic vicariate of the Cape of Good Hope, eastern district, now the diocese of Port Elizabeth (v.).
On 29 March 1938 it was elevated to an apostolic prefecture, on 9 April 1948 to a vicariate, and with the establishment of the hierarchy in the Union of South Africa on 11 January 1951 it became a diocese. It is entrusted to the Society of the Catholic Apostolate (Pallottines).
It has an area of 28,160 sq. km., with a population of about 250,000 inhabitants, almost all of them natives. Catholics: 2,794 natives, 711 coloureds and 827 Europeans. Catechumens 624. Pagans about 185,000; missionaries 23, brothers 18, foreign sisters 89, native sisters 8, catechists 9. Churches 33. Elementary schools 24, middle schools 3, vocational schools 1, secondary schools 2. Hospitals 4. Two periodicals are published there, and various pious associations and associations of Catholic Action flourish.
Bibliography6 worksMC, 1950, p. 167; Arch. di Prop. Fide, Relazione, pos. prot. n. 5149/50; The Catholic Directory of South Africa 1951, Cape Town 1951, pp. 17
BIBL.: MC, 1950, p. 167; Arch. di Prop. Fide, Relazione, pos. prot. n. 5149/50; The Catholic Directory of South Africa 1951, Cape Town 1951, pp. 177-83; AAS, 21 (1929), pp. 585-86; 40 (1948), pp. 441-42; 43 (1951), pp. 257-63.
Paventi, Saverio. “Queenstown, diocesi di.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. X, col. 389. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953. https://azioneromana.com/article/queenstown-diocesi-di.
MLA
Paventi, Saverio. “Queenstown, diocesi di.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. X, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953, col. 389. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/queenstown-diocesi-di.
BibTeX
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author = {Paventi, Saverio},
title = {Queenstown, diocesi di},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {X},
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note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1953},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/queenstown-diocesi-di}
}
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