The Cathedral of St Mary and All Saints, Harare is an

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cathedral in

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. The cathedral, located at the intersection of Nelson Mandela Avenue and Sam Nujoma Street in

Harare Harare ( ), formerly Salisbury, is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Zimbabwe. The city proper has an area of , a population of 1,849,600 as of the 2022 Zimbabwe census, 2022 census and an estimated 2,487,209 people in its metrop ...

, was begun in 1913 to plans by British architect Herbert Baker; he also designed the cathedrals of

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and

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History

Construction began under Frederic Beaven, Bishop of Mashonaland, and the sanctuary and choir were completed in 1914. The sandstone structure was only finished in 1961. The cathedral features a bell tower with 10 bells which were cast in

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. There are four chapels, dedicated to

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, St Mary, St Cecelia and the martyr Bernard Mizeki. On the walls of the nave, there are 14 murals of

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on the day of his crucifixion, the series being a traditional set of the stations of the Cross. The murals were painted in spring 1981, and presented for

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celebration that year. In 2012, a special service marked the return of the building to the Church of the Province of Central Africa after victory in a long-running legal battle with excommunicated former bishop Nolbert Kunonga, who had broken away from the CPCA in 2007 to form his own church. Kunonga and his supporters seized cars, churches, orphanages and other properties belonging to the CPCA. Eventually, the

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ruled that all the properties should be returned to the Anglican Diocese of Harare. The present Bishop of Harare is Farai Mutamiri.

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