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{{no footnotes|date=November 2015}}{{Infobox diocese
|jurisdiction = Diocese
|name = Keetmanshoop
|latin = Dioecesis Keetmanshoopensis
|country = {{flag|Namibia}}
|metropolitan = Windhoek
|rite = Latin Rite
|cathedral = St Stanislaus Cathedral
|cocathedral =
|area_km2 = 264,110
|population = 137,675
|population_as_of = 2004
|catholics = 38,356
|catholics_percent= 27.9
|pope = {{Incumbent pope}}
|bishop = Phillip Pöllitzer, O.M.I.
|coadjutor =
|auxiliary_bishops=
}}The Roman Catholic Diocese of Keetmanshoop ({{lang-la|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 {{ill|St. Stanislaus Cathedral|de|St.-Stanislaus-Kathedrale}}, in the city of Keetmanshoop. Statistics As per 2015, it pastorally served 42,570 Catholics (23.6% of 180,000 total population) on 264,110 km² in 11 parishes and 32 missions with 16 priests (3 diocesan, 13 religious), 13 deacons, 65 lay religious (17 brothers, 48 sisters) and 2 seminarists. History - July 7, 1909: Established as Apostolic Prefecture of Great Namaqualand, on territory split off from the then Apostolic Vicariate of Orange River in South Africa
- Promoted on July 14, 1930 as Apostolic Vicariate of Great Namaqualand
- January 13, 1949: Renamed after its see as Apostolic Vicariate of Keetmanshoop
- Promoted on March 14, 1994 as Diocese of Keetmanshoop
Ordinaries (all Roman rite, so far members of a missionary congregation) - Apostolic Prefects of Great Namaqualand
- Father Stanislao von Krolikowski, Oblates of Saint Francis of Sales (O.S.F.S.) (born Europe?) (1910 – death 1923)
- Fr. Mattia Eder, O.S.F.S. (born Europe?) (1923.03.16 – death 1930)
- Apostolic Vicars of Great Namaqualand
- Bishop Joseph Klemann, O.S.F.S. (born Europe?) (1931.02.24 – retired 1942), Titular Bishop of Drusiliana (1931.02.24 – death 1960.03.21)
- Giacomo Eich, O.S.F.S. (born Europe?) (1942.11.10 – death 1947.02.04), Titular Bishop of Cynopolis in Ægypto (1942.04.21 – 1947.02.04), succeeded as former Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Great Namaqualand (1942.04.21 – 1942.11.10)
- Apostolic Vicars of Keetmanshoop
- Francis Esser, O.S.F.S. (born Germany) (1949.01.13 – 1956), Titular Bishop of Claneus (1949.01.13 – 1962.09.12), next Coadjutor Bishop of Keimoes (South Africa) (1956 – 1962.09.12), succeeding as Bishop of Keimoes (South Africa) (1962.09.12 – death 1966.12.08)
- Edward Francis Joseph Schlotterback, O.S.F.S. (born USA) (1956.03.24 – retired 1989.10.02), Titular Bishop of Balanea (1956.03.24 – death 1994.12.09)
- Apostolic Administrator Father Ludger G. Holling, O.S.F.S. (born Europe?) (1989 – 1993.05.28), no other prelature
- Anthony Chiminello, O.S.F.S. (born Italy) (1993.05.28 – 1994.03.14 see below), Titular Bishop of Numana (1993.05.28 – 1994.03.14)
- Suffragan Bishops of Keetmanshoop
- Anthony Chiminello, O.S.F.S. (see above 1994.03.14 – death 2002.11.23)
- Phillip Pöllitzer, O.M.I. (born Austria) (2007.05.31 – retired 2017.07.21)
- Bishop-elect Willem Christiaans, O.S.F.S. (first native incumbent) (2018.02.07 – ...); no previous prelature.
See also - List of Catholic dioceses in Namibia
- Roman Catholicism in Namibia
Sources and External links - GCatholic.org
- Catholic Hierarchy
- Diocese of Keetmanshoop website
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