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.

The see of the Archdiocese of Cape Town is currently vacant.

We have a dedicated website for Jubilee Year 2025. Please visit it by following the link below:

 

News & Events

Archdiocesan Pastoral Council Report

Below is a summarised report of the APC meeting held at Christ the King, Pinelands on Saturday 16 August 2014. [gview file=”http://adct.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/APC-meeting-16-Aug-2014.pdf”]

Archdiocesan Pastoral Council meeting

Below are some pictures taken at the Archdiocesan Pastoral Council meeting held at Christ the King, Pinelands on Saturday 16th August 2014 ECCLESIA BRAVE NEW CHURCH MATERIALS We have received our Ecclesia Materials which you may now order and collect COD from our offices from Wed 20 Aug.DVD Pack                  R50 […]

A Dignified Debate about Dying

by Fr Anthony Egan SJ The hostility with which some religious conservatives attacked Anglican Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu’s views on assisted dying is saddening. Whether one agrees with the Arch or not, Tutu has put the important question back on the agenda. Tutu is not alone in this. In Britain, as proposed assisted dying legislation […]