| Cathedral of the Sacred Heart | |
| Fullname: | Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus |
| Pushpin Map: | Zimbabwe |
| Coordinates: | -17.821°N 31.0532°W |
| Location: | Harare |
| Country: | Zimbabwe |
| Denomination: | Roman Catholic Church |
| Former Name: | Church of the Sacred Heart |
| Founded Date: | 1893 |
| Consecrated Date: | 2 August 1924 |
| Past Bishop: | Patrick Fani Chakaipa |
| Architectural Type: | Cathedral |
| Years Built: | 1924-1925 |
| Groundbreaking: | 28 June 1924 |
| Deanery: | Inner City Deanery of Harare Archdiocese |
| Archdiocese: | Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Harare |
| Archbishop: | Robert Ndlovu |
| Vicar: | Kennedy Muguti |
The Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus[1] is a religious building belonging to the Roman Catholic Church[2] and is located on Fourth Street in central Harare,[3] Zimbabwe.[4]
It serves as the headquarters of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Harare (Archidioecesis Hararensis). It follows the Roman or Latin rite and was dedicated, as its name indicates, to the Sacred Heart of Jesus as a Catholic devotion tradition referred to the heart of Jesus of Nazareth.
It all began when the Jesuits first arrived in what was then Salisbury in Southern Rhodesia (now Harare in Zimbabwe); a chapel for forty people was opened in the grounds of the Dominican Convent in 1893. Fr Aloysius Leboeuf became parish priest, living in a room built onto the side of the chapel, and from here he designed a new and bigger church, the Church of the Sacred Heart, opened on the Feast of the Annunciation in 1900. This in turn eventually proved too small and, on 28 June 1924, Monsignor Brown laid the foundation stone of the present Cathedral of the Sacred Heart. The Cathedral was opened the following year, on Sunday, 2 August 1925. Jesuits continued to serve the Cathedral until 31 December 2008, when it was handed over to the diocesan clergy.
Due to the varied composition of the congregation, most Masses today are held in both English and Shona, a local language, and, to a lesser extent, additionally there are services in French and Portuguese.[5]
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