The Archdiocese of Harare (

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: ''Archidioecesis Hararensis'') is the

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for the

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Ecclesiastical province of Harare in

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. Its ecclesiastic territory includes the city of

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, and parts of the provinces of Manicaland,

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, Mashonaland East, and Mashonaland West. The archdiocese is the

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for the Ecclesiastical Province of Harare, which covers northeastern Zimbabwe. The current archbishop is

Robert Ndlovu Robert Christopher Ndlovu was installed as the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Harare on 21 August 2004. Education and career Ndlovu was born on 25 December 1955 at Tshongokwe, Matabeleland, Rhodesia. He was educated at the Marist Brothers Dete in ...

. The mother church of the archdiocese is the

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in Harare. The archdiocese has 166 priests, including 56 diocesan priests and 110 religious priests, and 254

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who are members of various religious institutes as of 2019. These priests, deacons and persons religious serve the archdiocese's Catholic population in of 3,569,900 in 57 Parishes in the Archdiocese Of Harare and a number of missions.

History

* July 2, 1879: Established as Mission “sui iuris” of Zambese from the Apostolic Vicariate of Natal in

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* March 9, 1915: Promoted as

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of Zambese * July 14, 1927: Renamed as Apostolic Prefecture of Salisbury * March 3, 1931: Promoted as Apostolic Vicariate of Salisbury * January 1, 1955: Promoted as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Salisbury * June 25, 1982: Renamed as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Harare

Special churches

The seat of the archbishop is the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Harare.

Prelates

Ordinaries

Superiors of Zambese

* Henri Depelchin (2 July 1879 – April 1883) * Richard Sykes (1896 – 1904) * Ignatius Gartlan (1904 – 1911) * Edward Parry (1911 – 9 March 1915); later returned here as Prefect Apostolic

= Prefects Apostolic of Zambese

* Richard Sykes (9 March 1915 – December 1919) * Edward Parry (January 1920 – May 1922); previously served here as Superior * Robert Brown (1922 – 14 July 1927 ''see below'')

Prefect Apostolic of Salisbury

* Robert Brown (''see above'' 14 July 1927 – 1929)

Vicar Apostolic of Salisbury

* Aston Chichester (4 March 1931 – 1 January 1955 ''see below'')

Archbishops of Salisbury

* Aston Chichester (''see above'' 1 January 1955 – 23 November 1956) * Francis William Markall (23 November 1956 – 31 May 1976) * Patrick Fani Chakaipa (31 May 1976 – 25 June 1982 ''see below'')

Archbishops of Harare

* Patrick Fani Chakaipa (''see above'' 25 June 1982 – 8 April 2003) *

(10 June 2004 – )

Coadjutor Archbishop

* Francis William Markall, S.J. (1956)

Auxiliary Bishop

* Patrick Fani Chakaipa (1972-1976), appointed Archbishop here

Suffragan dioceses

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* Mutare

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