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Metropolitan Archdiocese of

Windhoek

Namibia Namibia

Continent: Southern Africa

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Metropolitan Archdiocese

Suffragan Sees: Keetmanshoop, Rundu

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History

  • 1892.08.01: Established as Apostolic Prefecture of Lower Cimbebasia / Cimbebasia Inferiore (from Apostolic Prefecture of Cimbebasia)
  • 1921.01.10: Renamed as Apostolic Prefecture of Cimbebasia
  • 1926.05.11: Promoted as Apostolic Vicariate of Windhoek / Vindhœkn(sis) (Latin)
  • 1959.04.02: Lost territory to establish Apostolic Prefecture of Bechuanaland
  • 1994.03.14: Promoted as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Windhoek / Vindhœkn(sis) (Latin) (lost territory to establish Apostolic Vicariate of Rundu)

Special Churches


Present Prelates

Metropolitan Archbishop (2004.09.21 – ...):Archbishop Liborius Ndumbukuti Nashenda, O.M.I. (54)Archbishop Liborius Ndumbukuti Nashenda, O.M.I. (54)

President of Namibian Catholic Bishop’s Conference

Ordinaries

Metropolitan Archbishops of Windhoek (Roman Rite)

Archbishop Liborius Ndumbukuti Nashenda, O.M.I. (54)Archbishop Liborius Ndumbukuti Nashenda, O.M.I. (54)
(2004.09.21 – ...)

Born:1959.04.07 (Namibia)
Ordained Priest:1988.06.25
Consecrated Bishop:1999.02.07

Titular Bishop of Pertusa (1998.11.05 – 2004.09.21)

Auxiliary Bishop of Windhoek (Namibia) (1998.11.05 – 2004.09.21)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Windhoek (Namibia) (2004.09.21 – ...)

President of Namibian Catholic Bishop’s Conference (2007.09 – ...)

Archbishop Bonifatius Haushiku, I.C.P.
(1994.03.14 – 2002.06.12)

Born:1935 (Namibia)
Ordained Priest:1966.06.29
Consecrated Bishop:1979.01.27
Died:2002.06.12 († 67)

Auxiliary Bishop of Windhoek (Namibia) (1978.11.15 – 1980.11.29)

Titular Bishop of Troina (1978.11.15 – 1994.03.14)

Vicar Apostolic of Windhoek (Namibia) (1980.11.29 – 1994.03.14)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Windhoek (Namibia) (1994.03.14 – 2002.06.12)

President of Namibian Catholic Bishop’s Conference (1996 – 2002)

Vicars Apostolic of Windhoek (Roman Rite)

Bishop Bonifatius Haushiku, I.C.P. (later Archbishop)
(1980.11.29 – 1994.03.14)

(see above)

Bishop Rudolf Johannes Maria Koppmann, O.M.I.
(1961.03.20 – 1980.11.29)

Born:1913.01.18 (Germany)
Ordained Priest:1938.04.10
Consecrated Bishop:1957.05.11
Died:2007.06.24 († 94)

Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Windhoek (Namibia) (1957.01.26 – 1961.03.20)

Titular Bishop of Dalisandus in Pamphylia (1957.01.26 – 2007.06.24)

Vicar Apostolic of Windhoek (Namibia) (1961.03.20 – 1980.11.29)

Bishop Joseph Gotthardt, O.M.I.
(1926.05.11 – 1961.03.20)

Born:1880.12.18
Ordained Priest:1905.05.14
Consecrated Bishop:1926.09.05
Died:1963.08.03 († 82)

Prefect Apostolic of Cimbebasia (Namibia) (1921.02 – 1926.05.11)

Vicar Apostolic of Windhoek (Namibia) (1926.05.11 – 1961.03.20)

Titular Bishop of Mopsuestia (1926.05.11 – 1963.08.03)

Prefects Apostolic of Cimbebasia (Roman Rite)

Fr. Joseph Gotthardt, O.M.I. (later Bishop)
(1921.02 – 1926.05.11)

(see above)

Prefects Apostolic of Lower Cimbebasia (Roman Rite)

Fr. Eugenio Klaeyle, O.M.I.
(1892 – 1921)

Died:1921

Prefect Apostolic of Lower Cimbebasia (Namibia) (1892 – 1921)

Former Prelates


as of 2013.05.03

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