Diocese of Keetmanshoop

Diocese of Keetmanshoop

Dioecesis Keetmanshoopensis
Location
Country Namibia
MetropolitanWindhoek
Statistics
Area264,110 km2 (101,970 sq mi)
Population
  • Total
  • Catholics
  • (as of 2004)
  • 137,675
  • 38,356 (27.9%)
Information
RiteLatin Rite
CathedralSt. Stanislaus Cathedral
Current leadership
PopeLeo XIV
BishopWillem Christiaans, O.S.F.S
Bishops emeritusPhilipp Pöllitzer, O.M.I.

The Diocese of Keetmanshoop (Latin: Keetmanshoopen(sis)) 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.