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

Winter Living Theology 2014

Below are some pictures taken at the Winter Living Theology lectures at Schoenstatt, Cape Town, with Prof. Al Gini. Click on image to enlarge.  

Archdiocesan Health Care Association

Below are pictures taken at the Archdiocesan Catholic Health Care Association (ACHCA) meeting on 10 May 2014 at Nazareth House, Cape Town. Submitted by the association’s chaplain, Mgr Jock Baird.

Nurturing the Fruits of the Holy Spirit

by Frances Correia Fundamental to our Christian life is the reality that God is both interested in, and actively involved in, our lives.  Jesus came to tell us about God’s dream for the world: a dream that Jesus called ‘the kingdom of God’.  Our human task is to collaborate with the Holy Spirit to bring […]

The Faith Delusion?

CDs from Winter Living Theology 2013 ‘The Faith Delusion?’ with John Moffatt SJ Last year Fr John Moffatt travelled five cities across South Africa helping people to explain faith in the face of reason. His lectures were deep and insightful and were not afraid to tackle difficult topics such as evolution, science, revelation, and conflicts between Church teaching and modern […]

Year of the Deacon

Pray for your deacons. Download, and print the pdf (through Adobe Acrobat Reader), and insert in your daily missal or prayer book. [gview file=”http://adct.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Untitled-61.pdf”]

‘Our’ Girls

‘Our’ girls  by Raymond Perrier. It is not surprising that, the world over, people are concerned about the 230 teenage girls abducted in Northern Nigeria.  Although this incident has happened tens of thousands of miles away from the centres of economic and media power, everyone from Michelle Obama to girls in South African schools have been […]

Archdiocesan News

HOT OFF THE PRESS! Edition 2 of 2014. Top stories: Archbishop meets Pope Francis; All about our website; Bishops’ Ad Limina visit; Year of the Deacon; Vocations; St Teresa of Avila launch; Farewell to Archbishop Henry; Ecclesia: Brave New Church; and much, much more! This edition has been uploaded as two sections: pages 1-6 and […]

Vocations Sunday

This Fourth Sunday of Easter, May 11, 2014, the Church marks the 51st World Day of Prayer for Vocations. The Holy Father has released a Message on the theme ‘Vocations, Witness to the Truth’, which is available on the Vatican website. In his Message, Pope Francis states: ‘God follows the work of his hands with […]

20 Years of Democracy

Joint Pastoral Letter of the Bishops of the SACBC (Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference) and Leadership Conference on Consecrated Life [gview file=”http://adct.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/the-people-of-god-20-years-of-democracy.pdf”]

Your Guide to the Elections 2014

How to cast your vote – based on Catholic Social Teaching – a guide to making moral choices Brought to you by the Justice & Peace Commission – Research by the the Catholic Parliamentary Liaison Office [gview file=”http://adct.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/JP-booklet-2014.pdf”]