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Apostolic Vicariate of Rundu

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Country
  
Namibia

Rite
  
Latin Rite

Metropolitan
  
Windhoek

Area
  
140,046 km²

Population- Total- Catholics
  
(as of 2004)298,97691,464 (30.6%)

Bishop
  
Joseph Shipandeni Shikongo, O.M.I.

Ecclesiastical province
  
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Windhoek

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The Apostolic Vicariate of Rundu (Latin: Vicariatus Apostolicus Runduensis) is a Roman Catholic apostolic vicariate in Namibia (southwestern Africa). Its cathedral episcopal see is St. Mary's in the city of Rundu.

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Although a missionary pre-diocesan jurisdiction, it's not exempt but a suffragan in the Ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Windhoek.

History

  • Established on March 14, 1994 as Apostolic Vicariate of Rundu, on territory split off from the then Apostolic Vicariate of Windhoek (now its Metropolitan).

    • Episcopal Ordinaries

    (missionary members of Roman rite congregations)

    Apostolic Vicars of Rundu
  • Joseph Shipandeni Shikongo, Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (O.M.I.), Titular Bishop of Capra (March 14, 1994 – present)

    • References

    Apostolic Vicariate of Rundu Wikipedia
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