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Our Lady of Assumption Cathedral, Manzini

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Location
  
Manzini

Denomination
  
Roman Catholic Church

Country
  
Swaziland

The Our Lady of Assumption Cathedral or Cathedral of Manzini, is the name given to a religious building belonging to the Catholic Church and is located in the town of Manzini, in the district capital of the same name, and the most populous city and an important industrial and commercial center in the central African country of Swaziland.

It also functions as the seat of the Diocese of Manzini (Latin: Dioecesis Manziniensis) which was created in 1951 by the bull Suprema Nobis of Pope Pius XII. This included in the ecclesiastical province of Johannesburg in South Africa, whose leaders are bishops of Manzini since 1955.

It was visited by Pope John Paul II on September 16, 1988 on his tour in Africa.

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Our Lady of Assumption Cathedral, Manzini Wikipedia