Sacred Heart Cathedral, Pretoria
The Cathedral of the Sacred Heart[1][2] or just Pretoria Catholic Cathedral is a religious building belonging to the Catholic Church and is located in the Bosman street[3] of the town of Pretoria,[4] in Gauteng province in South Africa.
The cathedral was built in 1877[5] in the Gothic architectural style, follows the Roman or Latin rite and serves as headquarters of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Pretoria (Archidioecesis Praetoriensis) which was created in 1951 by the bull Suprema Nobis of Pope Pius XII. It has the dignity of cathedral since 1948.
See also
- Roman Catholicism in South Africa
- Sacred Heart Cathedral (disambiguation)
References
- ^ Sacred Heart Cathedral in Pretoria
- ^ Brain, J. B. (1 January 1991). The Catholic Church in the Transvaal. Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate. ISBN 9789991124049.
- ^ Pretoria, Church of the Province of South Africa Diocese of; Conference, Catholic Church Southern African Catholic Bishops' (1 January 1988). The Catholic Directory of Southern Africa. Salesian Press.
- ^ Kearney, Paddy (1 June 2010). Guardian of the Light: Denis Hurley: Renewing the Church, Opposing Apartheid. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. ISBN 9781441188557.
- ^ "Historical Churches of Pretoria | Pretoria". showme.co.za. Retrieved 29 April 2016.
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