Welcome to the Archdiocese of Cape Town

Cape Town is commonly known as the Mother City of South Africa, and is the first ecclesiastical territory to be established in Southern Africa (1818). You are most welcome to this website. It is hoped that it will inform you and provide you with any information you may require regarding this segment of the Catholic Church.
We also provide links to other websites which might interest you. If you require any information not included here, email us and we will do what we can to help.
If you have discovered this page by accident, you are especially welcome and we hope you will find it of some value and maybe help you to understand how the Catholic Church in Cape Town is trying to serve the community and so bring it closer to the Lord.

 

News & Events

Consistory Reminder

Be sure to watch the live-streaming of the Consistory on the Vatican website, 30 September at 10 am, at which our Archbishop will become a Cardinal: https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/events/event.dir.html/content/vaticanevents/en/2023/9/30/concistoro.html See also a live-stream to YouTube on Shalom World: https://www.youtube.com/live/ACSV_USCp8E?feature=shared Cardinal Brislin’s Thanksgiving Mass, which will be held on Sunday 1 October at 09.00 am at St Stephen’s […]

Consistory and Thanksgiving Mass live-stream

The Consistory, as which our Archbishop will become a Cardinal, will be live-streamed from the Vatican website at 10.00 am (our time and in Italy) on Saturday 30 September at this link: https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/events/event.dir.html/content/vaticanevents/en/2023/9/30/concistoro.html Cardinal Brislin’s Thanksgiving Mass, which will be held on Sunday 1 October at 09.00 am at St Stephen’s Chapel in the Vatican […]

Archdiocesan News 3 of 2023

HOT OFF THE DIGITAL PRESS: Consistory and Thanksgiving Mass to be live-streamed; three new Deacons ordained for Cape Town; World Youth Day 2023; On the Red Carpet…; Overwhelmed by generosity…; Book of Tributes launched in honour of ‘Reluctant Prophet’ Albert Nolan OP; Catechist Alive!; The Letter Screening and Laudato Si’; A Vocation Story; Go tell […]

Happy Birthday Bishop Sylvester!

Our auxiliary bishop, Bishop Sylvester David OMI, celebrates his 70th birthday while at the Bishops’ Conference Plenary Session at Mariannhill, KZN. Here he is seen cutting his birthday cake while his fellow bishops sing “happy birthday“.

Interviews with Cardinal-elect Stephen Brislin

Cardinal-elect Stephen Brislin recently conducted a number of interviews with the media upon the announcement of his appointment as a Cardinal by Pope Francis. Here are two of those interviews, one with Cape Talk and the other with eNCA. CAPE TALK eNCA

Cardinal-elect says the church must “work much harder for reconciliation”

by Sheila Pires, SACBC Communications Office The Cardinal-elect of the Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference (SACBC) says he would like to see a Church that works “much harder for reconciliation,” as countries such as South Africa need “healing.” In an interview with the SACBC communications office, the Cardinal-elect Stephen Brislin of Cape Town Archdiocese says […]