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Siegfried Jwara
Siegfried Mandla Jwara, CMM (born 1 February 1957) is a South African prelate of the Catholic Church who has been appointed archbishop of Durban. He has been a bishop since 2016, serving as the Apostolic Vicar of Ingwavuma. Biography Siegfried Jwara was born on 1 February 1957 in Saint Nivard, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. He was named Siegfried after the priest who baptized him. After attending the Kwa-Hluzingqondo School in uMkhomazi and completing his high school studies, he entered the Congregation of the Missionaries of Mariannhill on 1 February 1981. He took his first religious vows on 24 September 1984 and his final vows in 1986. He completed his studies in philosophy and theology at Saint Joseph's Theological Institute in Cedara from 1982 to 1986. He was ordained a deacon on 31 May 1986 by Bishop Mansuet Biyase of Eshowe and a priest on 14 February 1987 by Bishop Paul Themba Mngoma of Mariannhill. He was parish vicar at the Clairvaux Mission in Mpendle in the Diocese of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariannhillers
, image = Congregation of the Missionaries of Mariannhill logo.png , abbreviation = CMM , formation = , founder = Franz Pfanner , founding_location = Mariannhill, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa , type = Clerical Religious Congregation of Pontifical Right (for Men)http://www.gcatholic. org/orders/055.htm , headquarters = Via S. Giovanni Eudes 91, 00163 Rome, Italy , additional_location = outh AfricaAustria, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States, CanadaenyaZambia] imbabweColombia , membership = 320 members (214 priests) as of 2018 , leader_title = Superior General , leader_name = Michael Mass , website = The Mariannhillers, officially named the Congregation of the Missionaries of Mariannhill (; abbreviated CMM) are a religious institute of the Catholic Church founded by Dom Franz Pfanner. They were originally a monastery of Trappist monks founded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Diocese Of Umtata
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Umtata ( la, Umtatan(a)) is a diocese located in the city of Umtata, King Sabata Dalindyebo Local Municipality, in the Ecclesiastical province of Durban in South Africa. History * 30 March 1930: Established as Apostolic Prefecture of Umtata from the Apostolic Vicariate of Mariannhill * 12 April 1937: Promoted as Apostolic Vicariate of Umtata * 11 January 1951: Promoted as Diocese of Umtata Special churches The Cathedral is the Cathedral of Our Lady Assumed into Heaven in Umtata. Leadership * Prefects Apostolic of Umtata (Roman rite) ** Fr. Daniele Kauczor, M.C.C.I. (1923 – 1926) ** Fr. Luigi Mohn, M.C.C.I. (1926.12.10 – 1930) ** Fr. Emanuele Hanisch, M.H.M. (1930.10.28 – 1937.04.13 ''see below'') * Vicars Apostolic of Umtata (Roman rite) ** Bishop Emanuele Hanisch, M.H.M. (''see above'' 1937.04.13 – 1940.02.28) ** Bishop Joseph Grueter, C.M.M. (1941.04.03 – 1951.01.11 ''see below'') * Bishops of Umtata (Roman rite) ** Bishop Joseph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1957 Births
1957 ( MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1957th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 957th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1950s decade. Events January * January 1 – The Saarland joins West Germany. * January 3 – Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch. * January 5 – South African player Russell Endean becomes the first batsman to be dismissed for having ''handled the ball'', in Test cricket. * January 9 – British Prime Minister Anthony Eden resigns. * January 10 – Harold Macmillan becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. * January 11 – The African Convention is founded in Dakar. * January 14 – Kripalu Maharaj is named fifth Jagadguru (world teacher), after giving seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars. * January 15 – The film ''Throne of Blood'', Akira Kurosawa's reworking of '' Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilfrid Napier
Wilfrid Fox Napier OFM (born 8 March 1941) is a South African prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Durban from 1992 to 2021 and has been a cardinal since 2001. He served as Bishop of Kokstad from 1981 to 1992. Biography Napier was born on 8 March 1941 in Matatiele, South Africa. He graduated from University College Galway in 1964 with a degree in Latin and English. Studying at the Irish Franciscans St Anthony's College, Leuven, he obtained an MA in philosophy and theology from the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium. He was ordained a priest of the Order of Friars Minor on 25 July 1970. On 15 May 1978 he was appointed apostolic administrator of Kokstad and on 29 November 1980 he was appointed bishop there. He chose as his episcopal motto the phrase ''pax et bonum'' which means "peace and goodwill". On 29 March 1992, he was named to succeed Denis Hurley as Archbishop of Durban. During the early nineties, he and other church leaders were involve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Biya
Paul Biya (born Paul Barthélemy Biya'a bi Mvondo; 13 February 1933) is a Cameroonian politician who has served as the president of Cameroon since 6 November 1982.Profile of Biya at Cameroonian presidency web site .Biography at 2004 presidential election web site . He is the second-longest-ruling president in Africa and the oldest head of state in the world. A native of Cameroon's south, Biya rose rapidly as a bureaucrat under President [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference
The Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference (SACBC) is an episcopal conference consisting of all the bishops of the Roman Catholic Church in South Africa, Botswana, and Swaziland, and their equivalents under canon law (apostolic vicars, apostolic administrators, etc.). Founded in March 1947, it is a collegial body approved by the Holy See and has as its particular aim: In recent times, the Conference's application of the revision of the English translation of the Mass liturgy has been criticized as premature. Organization The conference is led by a president and two vice presidents, each elected by an absolute majority of the members for three year terms. The members also elect chairmen and vice-chairmen for the departments of the conference. All office holders must be diocesan ordinaries; coadjutor bishops, auxiliary bishops, and bishops emeriti ''Emeritus'' (; female: ''emerita'') is an adjective used to designate a retired chair, professor, pastor, bishop, pope ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Diocese Of Manzini
The Diocese of Manzini ( la, Manzinien(sis)) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Eswatini. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Johannesburg in South Africa. Its episcopal see is located in the city of Manzini. History * April 19, 1923: Established as Apostolic Prefecture of Swaziland from the Apostolic Vicariate of Natal in South Africa * March 15, 1939: Promoted as Apostolic Vicariate of Swaziland * January 11, 1951: Promoted as Diocese of Bremersdorp * November 7, 1961: Renamed as Diocese of Manzini Leadership Prefects Apostolic of Swaziland *Fr. Pellegrino Bellezze, OSM (15 March 1923 – 1932) *Fr. Romualdo Migliorini, OSM (8 July 1933 – 1939) Vicar Apostolic of Swaziland * Costantino Maria Attilio Barneschi, OSM (15 March 1939 – 11 January 1951 ''see below'') Bishop of Bremersdorp * Costantino Maria Attilio Barneschi, OSM (''see above'' 11 January 1951 – 7 Novem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elephantaria In Proconsulari
Sidi Ahmed Djedidi is a town and hill near Hammamet, Tunisia, 64 Kilometers south of Tunis. It is located at 36.4 n and 10.4 e. During the Roman Empire the town was known as Elephantaria and was a civitas of the Africa Proconsularis. The city at that time was the seat of an ancient Christian Bishopric, which survives today as a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.Annuario Pontificio The ''Annuario Pontificio'' (Italian for ''Pontifical Yearbook'') is the annual directory of the Holy See of the Catholic Church. It lists the popes in chronological order and all officials of the Holy See's departments. It also provides names ... 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ). References Catholic titular sees in Africa Roman towns and cities in Tunisia {{AncientRome-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pope Francis
Pope Francis ( la, Franciscus; it, Francesco; es, link=, Francisco; born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 17 December 1936) is the head of the Catholic Church. He has been the bishop of Rome and sovereign of the Vatican City State since 13 March 2013. Francis is the first pope to be a member of the Society of Jesus, the first from the Americas, the first from the Southern Hemisphere, and the first pope from outside Europe since Gregory III, a Syrian who reigned in the 8th century. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Bergoglio worked for a time as a bouncer and a janitor as a young man before training to be a chemist and working as a technician in a food science laboratory. After recovering from a severe illness, he was inspired to join the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in 1958. He was ordained a Catholic priest in 1969, and from 1973 to 1979 was the Jesuit provincial superior in Argentina. He became the archbishop of Buenos Aires in 1998 and was created a cardinal in 2001 by Pope John Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pietermaritzburg
Pietermaritzburg (; Zulu: umGungundlovu) is the capital and second-largest city in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It was founded in 1838 and is currently governed by the Msunduzi Local Municipality. Its Zulu name umGungundlovu is the name used for the district municipality. Pietermaritzburg is popularly called Maritzburg in Afrikaans, English and Zulu alike, and often informally abbreviated to PMB. It is a regionally important industrial hub, producing aluminium, timber and dairy products, as well as the main economic hub of Umgungundlovu District Municipality. The public sector is a major employer in the city due to local, district and provincial governments located here. The city has many schools and tertiary education institutions, including a campus of the University of KwaZulu-Natal. It had a population of 228,549 in 1991; the current population is estimated at over 600,000 residents (including neighbouring townships) and has one of the largest populatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Archdiocese Of Durban
The Archdiocese of Durban evolved from the Vicariate Apostolic of Natal which was erected on 15 November 1850 and elevated to an archdiocese with the title Archdiocese of Durban on 11 January 1951. As of 2002, the Church census shows that there were 217,468 Catholics in 74 parishes in the Archdiocese. The Province of the Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Durban contains these suffragan dioceses: * Dundee * Eshowe * Kokstad * Marianhill * Umtata * Umzimkulu Leadership ; Vicariate * Bishop Marie Jean Francois Allard, O.M.I. (31 January 1851 – 11 June 1874) * Bishop Charles-Constant Jolivet, O.M.I. (15 September 1874 – 15 September 1903) * Bishop Henri Delalle, O.M.I. (19 December 1903 – 4 April 1946) * Bishop Denis Hurley, O.M.I. (12 December 1946 – 11 January 1951) ; Archdiocese * Archbishop Denis Hurley, O.M.I. (11 January 1951 – 29 May 1992) * Archbishop Wilfrid Napier, OFM (29 March 1992 – 9 June 2021) (Cardinal in 2001) ** Coadjutor Archbishop Abel Gab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
