The Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is a religious building belonging to the Roman Catholic Church and is located on Fourth Street in central

Harare Harare (; formerly Salisbury ) is the capital and most populous city of Zimbabwe. The city proper has an area of 940 km2 (371 mi2) and a population of 2.12 million in the 2012 census and an estimated 3.12 million in its metropolitan ...

Zimbabwe Zimbabwe (), officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country located in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the south-west, Zambia to the north, and Mozam ...

History

It serves as the headquarters of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Harare (''Archidioecesis Hararensis''). It follows the Roman or Latin rite and was dedicated, as its name indicates, to the

Sacred Heart of Jesus The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus ( la, Cor Jesu Sacratissimum) is one of the most widely practised and well-known Catholic devotions, wherein the heart of Jesus is viewed as a symbol of "God's boundless and passionate love for mankind". This dev ...

as a Catholic devotion tradition referred to the heart of

Jesus of Nazareth Jesus, likely from he, יֵשׁוּעַ, translit=Yēšūaʿ, label=Hebrew/Aramaic ( AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ or Jesus of Nazareth (among other names and titles), was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious ...

. It all began when the

Jesuits The Society of Jesus ( la, Societas Iesu; abbreviation: SJ), also known as the Jesuits (; la, Iesuitæ), is a religious order (Catholic), religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church headquartered in Rom ...

first arrived in what was then Salisbury in

Southern Rhodesia Southern Rhodesia was a landlocked self-governing British Crown colony in southern Africa, established in 1923 and consisting of British South Africa Company (BSAC) territories lying south of the Zambezi River. The region was informally kn ...

(now

in Zimbabwe); a chapel for forty people was opened in the grounds of the Dominican Convent in 1893. Fr Aloysius Leboeuf became parish priest, living in a room built onto the side of the chapel, and from here he designed a new and bigger church, the Church of the Sacred Heart, opened on the

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in 1900. This in turn eventually proved too small and, on 28 June 1924,

Monsignor Monsignor (; it, monsignore ) is an honorific form of address or title for certain male clergy members, usually members of the Roman Catholic Church. Monsignor is the apocopic form of the Italian ''monsignore'', meaning "my lord". "Monsignor" ca ...

Brown laid the foundation stone of the present Cathedral of the Sacred Heart. The Cathedral was opened the following year, on Sunday, 2 August 1925. Jesuits continued to serve the Cathedral until 31 December 2008, when it was handed over to the diocesan clergy. Due to the varied composition of the congregation, most Masses today are held in both English and

Shona Shona often refers to: * Shona people, a Southern African people * Shona language, a Bantu language spoken by Shona people today Shona may also refer to: * ''Shona'' (album), 1994 album by New Zealand singer Shona Laing * Shona (given name) * S ...

, a local language, and, to a lesser extent, additionally there are services in French and Portuguese.

Mass Times

Sunday * 07:00hrs - English Mass in the Cathedral * * 08:00hrs - Shona Mass in the Cathedral * 08:00hrs - Missionary Childhood/Sunday School Mass in the Jubilee Hall * * 09:30hrs - Youth Mass in the Jubilee Hall * * 10:00hrs - English Mass in the Cathedral * * 11:30hrs - Shona Mass in the Cathedral * * 13:00hrs - French Mass in the Cathedral * * 17:30hrs - English Mass in the Cathedral Monday to Friday * 09:00hrs - English Mass * 13:00hrs - English Mass * 17:30hrs - Shona Mass Saturdays and Public Holidays * 09:00hrs - English Mass

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sacred Heart Cathedral, Church Roman Catholic cathedrals in Zimbabwe Buildings and structures in Harare

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