Roman Catholic Diocese of Mohale's Hoek
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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Mohale's Hoek ( la, Mohaleshoeken(sis)) is a
diocese In Ecclesiastical polity, 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 Roman province, pro ...
located in the city of Mohale’s Hoek in the
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of
Maseru Maseru is the capital and largest city of Lesotho. It is also the capital of the Maseru District. Located on the Caledon River, Maseru lies directly on the Lesotho–South Africa border. Maseru had a population of 330,760 in the 2016 census. The ...
in
Lesotho Lesotho ( ), officially the Kingdom of Lesotho, is a country landlocked country, landlocked as an Enclave and exclave, enclave in South Africa. It is situated in the Maloti Mountains and contains the Thabana Ntlenyana, highest mountains in Sou ...
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History

* November 10, 1977: Established as Diocese of Mohale’s Hoek from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Maseru


Ordinaries


Bishops of Mohale's Hoek

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Sebastian Koto Khoarai Sebastian Koto Khoarai, O.M.I. (11 September 1929 – 17 April 2021) was a prelate of the Catholic Church who was bishop of Mohale's Hoek, Lesotho from 1977 to 2014. He was made a cardinal in 2016 and was the first and so far the only ca ...
,
O.M.I. The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI) is a missionary religious congregation in the Catholic Church. It was founded on January 25, 1816, by Eugène de Mazenod, a French priest born in Aix-en-Provence in the south of France on August 1, ...
(1977-2014) (elevated to
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in 2016) * John Joale Tlhomola (2014–present)


See also

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Roman Catholicism in Lesotho The Catholic Church in Lesotho is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. Approximately 90 percent of the population are Christians, of whom half are Catholics.Wikipedia:Footnotes on how to create references using tags which will then appear here automatically -->


External links


GCatholic.org

Catholic Hierarchy
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Mohale's Hoek Mohale's Hoek is the capital city of Mohale's Hoek District in Lesotho. It had a population of approximately 40,040 in 2016.Lesotho Bureau of StatisticsCensus Pre Results2006. History Mohale's Hoek had first been inhabited by the San who were fo ...
Christian organizations established in 1977 Roman Catholic dioceses and prelatures established in the 20th century 1977 establishments in Lesotho Mohale's Hoek Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Maseru