Diocese of Keetmanshoop
The Diocese of Keetmanshoop is a suffragan diocese in the Latin Rite Ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan of Windhoek in Namibia, yet depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
Its cathedral episcopal see is St. Stanislaus Cathedral, in the city of Keetmanshoop.
Statistics
As per 2015, it pastorally served 42,570 Catholics on 264,110 km2 in 11 parishes and 32 missions with 16 priests, 13 deacons, 65 lay religious and 2 seminarists.History
- July 7, 1909: Established as Apostolic Prefecture of Great Namaqualand, on territory split off from the then Apostolic Vicariate of Orange River in South Africa
- Promoted on July 14, 1930 as Apostolic Vicariate of Great Namaqualand
- January 13, 1949: Renamed after its see as Apostolic Vicariate of Keetmanshoop
- Promoted on March 14, 1994 as '''Diocese of Keetmanshoop'''
Bishops
;Apostolic Prefects of Great Namaqualand- Fr. Stanislaus von Krolikowski, O.S.F.S.
- Fr. Mattias Eder, O.S.F.S.
- Joseph Klemann, O.S.F.S., Titular Bishop of Drusiliana
- John Francis Eich, O.S.F.S., Titular Bishop of Cynopolis in Ægypto, succeeded as former Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Great Namaqualand
- Francis Esser, O.S.F.S., Titular Bishop of Claneus, next Coadjutor Bishop of Keimoes, succeeding as Bishop of Keimoes
- Edward Francis Joseph Schlotterback, O.S.F.S., Titular Bishop of Balanea
- *Apostolic Administrator Father Ludger G. Holling, O.S.F.S., no other prelature
- Anthony Chiminello, O.S.F.S., Titular Bishop of Numana
- Anthony Chiminello, O.S.F.S.
- Phillip Pöllitzer, O.M.I.
- Willem Christiaans, O.S.F.S. ; no previous prelature.
Coadjutor Bishop
- John Francis Eich, O.S.F.S.