Location Kokstad Denomination Roman Catholic Church | Country South Africa | |
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The St. Patrick’s Cathedral or just Kokstad Cathedral is the name given to a religious building of the Catholic church is located at 107 Hope Street of the town of Kokstad in the province of Kwazulu-Natal in South Africa. It is under the pastoral responsibility of the Bishop Zolile Peter Mpambani.
The temple follows the Roman or Latin rite and acts as the headquarters of the Diocese of Kokstad (Dioecesis Kokstadensis) which was created in 1951 with the bull Suprema Nobis of Pope Pius XII.
Its history dates back to September 1884 when the first Catholic church was built in that place through the work of the soldiers of the Cape Mounted Rifles. 4 years later he joined a school. In 1924 the nuns of the Holy Cross drove the construction of the present cathedral.