The Diocese of Manzini ( la, Manzinien(sis)) is a

Latin Church , native_name_lang = la , image = San Giovanni in Laterano - Rome.jpg , imagewidth = 250px , alt = Façade of the Archbasilica of St. John in Lateran , caption = Archbasilica of Saint Jo ...

ecclesiastical territory or

diocese In 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 provinces were administratively associ ...

of the

Catholic Church The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the List of Christian denominations by number of members, largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics Catholic Church by country, worldwide . It is am ...

Eswatini Eswatini ( ; ss, eSwatini ), officially the Kingdom of Eswatini and formerly named Swaziland ( ; officially renamed in 2018), is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. It is bordered by Mozambique to its northeast and South Africa to its no ...

. It is a

suffragan diocese A suffragan diocese is one of the dioceses other than the metropolitan archdiocese that constitute an ecclesiastical province. It exists in some Christian denominations, in particular the Catholic Church, the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandri ...

in the

ecclesiastical province An ecclesiastical province is one of the basic forms of jurisdiction in Christian Churches with traditional hierarchical structure, including Western Christianity and Eastern Christianity. In general, an ecclesiastical province consists of sev ...

of the

metropolitan Metropolitan may refer to: * Metropolitan area, a region consisting of a densely populated urban core and its less-populated surrounding territories * Metropolitan borough, a form of local government district in England * Metropolitan county, a typ ...

Johannesburg Johannesburg ( , , ; Zulu language, Zulu and xh, eGoli ), colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, or "The City of Gold", is the largest city in South Africa, classified as a Megacity#List of megacities, megacity, and is List of urban areas by p ...

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring coun ...

. Its

episcopal see An episcopal see is, in a practical use of the phrase, the area of a bishop's ecclesiastical jurisdiction. Phrases concerning actions occurring within or outside an episcopal see are indicative of the geographical significance of the term, mak ...

is located in the city of Manzini.

History

* April 19, 1923: Established as Apostolic Prefecture of Swaziland from the

Apostolic Vicariate of Natal The Vicariate Apostolic of Natal ( la, Vicariatus Apostolicus Natalensis) was a Roman Catholic missionary, quasi-diocesan jurisdiction in South Africa. Antecedents The history of the Catholic Church in South Africa goes back to 1660, when a Fren ...

* 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 November 1961 ''see below'')

Bishops of Manzini

* Costantino Maria Attilio Barneschi, OSM (''see above'' 7 November 1961 – 21 May 1965) * Girolamo Maria Casalini, OSM (18 December 1965 – 24 January 1976) * Aloysius Isaac Mandlenkhosi Zwane (24 January 1976 – 10 August 1980) * Louis Ncamiso Ndlovu, OSM (1 July 1985 – 27 August 2012) * José Luís Ponce de León, IMC (29 November 2013 – present)

References

External links

GCatholic.org

Roman Catholic dioceses in Eswatini Christian organizations established in 1923 Roman Catholic dioceses and prelatures established in the 20th century Manzini, Eswatini Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Johannesburg {{Africa-RC-diocese-stub