Catholic Church in Zimbabwe

Catholic Church in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwean Diocese' boundaries. Harare and Bulawayo are metropolitan Archdiocese
Type	National polity
Classification	Catholic
Orientation	Latin
Scripture	Bible
Theology	Catholic theology
Polity	Episcopal
Governance	Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops' Conference
Pope	Pope Francis
ZCBC President	Robert Ndlovu
Apostolic Nuncio	Paolo Rudelli
Region	Zimbabwe
Language	English, Shona, Ndebele
Founder	Jesuits
Origin	1887
Members	1,367,669
Official website	http://www.zcbc.co.zw/

The Catholic Church in Zimbabwe is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome.

According to the 2017 Inter Censal Demography Survey by the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency 8.0% of the population of Zimbabwe were Roman Catholic; overall, 84% of the country had a Christian background.

There were 1,145,000 Catholics in the country (about 9% of the total population) in 2005. By 2017, the censal survey had the number of Catholics at 1.2 million.

In 2020, Catholic numbers were up to 2 million people, with 600 priests and 1,000 nuns serving across 267 parishes.

Pius Ncube, the former archbishop of Bulawayo, was an outspoken critic of the then government of Robert Mugabe, who is also a Catholic.

Dioceses

• Harare
  • Chinhoyi
  • Gokwe
  • Mutare
• Bulawayo
  • Gweru
  • Hwange
  • Masvingo

See also

• Religion in Zimbabwe
• Christianity in Zimbabwe
• Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bulawayo
• List of parishes in the Archdiocese of Harare
• List of Catholic dioceses in Zimbabwe
• Archbishop Marek Zalewski

External links

• Catholic Hierarchy website, Statistics relating to the Catholic church in Zimbabwe
• GCatholic
• Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops' Conference