The Catholic Church in Namibia is part of the Catholic Church under the universal, direct jurisdiction of the supreme Vicar of Christ, the Bishop of Rome and the Catholic world, the Pope. The country is divided into two dioceses, including one archdiocese together with an Apostolic Vicariate. There were 246,654 Catholics in Namibia, about 13.7% of the total population.
The Catholic Church in Namibia, southwest Africa, is solely composed of a Latin hierarchy, united in the national Episcopal Conference of Namibia, comprising one ecclesiastical province, consisting of the Metropolitan Archdiocese and two suffragan sees: a bishopric and, exceptionally, a pre-diocesan, yet non-exempt Apostolic vicariate. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Windhoek is the Metropolitan See for the Ecclesiastical province of Windhoek in Namibia. The predecessor to the current Archdiocese, the Prefecture Apostolic of Cimbebasia, was established in 1892 and the current archdiocese was fully erected in March 1994. The current Archbishop is Liborius Ndumbukuti Nashenda OMI.
The Diocese of Keetmanshoop is a suffragan diocese in the Ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan of Windhoek in Namibia. His Excellency Willem Christiaans OSFS is the current Bishop of Keetmanshoop Diocese.
The Apostolic Vicariate of Rundu is although a missionary pre-diocesan jurisdiction, it is not exempt but a suffragan in the Ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Arhdiocese of Windhoek, Namibia. Very Rev. Fr. Linus Ngenomesho OMI is the present Apostolic Administrator of Vicariate of Rundu.
Most Rev. Liborius Nashenda OMI
Archbishop of Windhoek
Bishop Willem Christiaans OSFS
Diocese of Keetmanshoop
Very Rev. Fr. Linus Ngenomesho OMI
Apostolic Administrator of Vicariate of Rundu
Pope Francis
