Enciclopedia Cattolica

WINDHOEK, VICARIATO APOSTOLICO DI

Windhoek, Apostolic Vicariate of

Volume XII · p. 1052 · 1954

English translation · Testo originale italiano

WINDHOEK, VICARIATO APOSTOLICO di. - È situato nella parte settentrionale dell'Africa sudoccidentale, dal 1920 mandato dell'Unione Sudafricana.
WINDHOEK, VICARIATO APOSTOLICO di. - È situato nella parte settentrionale dell'Africa sudoccidentale, dal 1920 mandato dell'Unione Sudafricana.

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

On 19 August 1892 the Prefecture of Cimbebasia (q.V. GUINEA) was divided into that of Upper Cimbebasia, for the part included in Portuguese Angola, and that of Lower Cimbebasia, for the part located in South West Africa. The latter on 10 January 1921 took the name of Cimbebasia and on 11 May 1926 was raised to an apostolic vicariate under the name of W. On 10 March 1950 the area of the Caprivi Strip was annexed to the apostolic prefecture of Victoria Falls, now the apostolic vicariate of Livingstone (q.v.). It is entrusted to the Oblates of Mary Immaculate and has an area of about 400,000 sq. km. with a population of 26,250 Europeans and 305,000 non-Europeans. The European Catholics number 1,419, the coloured 500, the natives 21,336; catechumens 1,462; missionaries 44, brothers 30; European sisters 159, natives 14; catechists 56; churches 38; schools 310.

BIBL.: AAS, 13 (1921), pp. 146-47; 18 (1926), pp. 378-79; 42 (1950), pp. 646; The Catholic Directory of South Africa 1952, Cape Town 1952, pp. 400-13. Saverio Paventi