Pretoria

Province of Pretoria
Patron: The Sacred Heart of Jesus Mother of Good Counsel

Most Reverend
Archbishop Dabula Anthony Mpako
Appointed Bishop of Queenstown on 23rd May 2011, ordained on 06th August 2011. Appointed Archbishop of Pretoria and Military Ordinary to the South African National Defence Force on 30th April 2019. Installed 22nd June 2019.

Postal Address:
PO Box 8149, Pretoria
Residence: Garner House, 125 Main Street, Waterkloof, Pretoria 0181
Tel: 012 460 2055
Fax: 012 325 3994
E-mail: archbishop@ptadiocese.org.za

Coat of Arms and Motto

Predecessors

1. Prefect Apostolic John Colburn Garner – 1948 – 1951
2. Archbishop John Colburn Garner – 1951 – 1975 (Deceased)
3. Archbishop George Francis Daniel 1975 – 2009 – retired, PO Box 1372,  Holy Cross,  Cell: 076 168 1268
4. Archbishop Paul Mandla Khumalo CMM, 2009 – 2010 – retired, Marianhill Monastery

History of the Diocese

Bishop Jolivet, OMI, Vicar Apostolic of Natal, visited this distant portion of his vast mission and celebrated the first Mass in Pretoria on 8 June 1877. Later Lydenburg, Barberton, Pilgrim’s Rest and the Witwatersrand were visited and centres established. Subdivision of the Vicariate of Natal ensued and Pretoria and surrounding districts formed part of the Prefecture Apostolic of the Transvaal (1886), which became the Vicariate Apostolic of the Transvaal (1904).
By Decree dated 9 April 1948, the Vicariate Apostolic of Pretoria was erected and confided to the secular clergy. Rt. Rev. Bishop J. C. Garner, PhD, was consecrated Titular Bishop of Tracula, 31 May 1948, and appointed first Vicar Apostolic.
On 11. January 1951, Pope Pius XII established the Ecclesiastical Hierarchy in the Union of South Africa and set up the Ecclesiastical Province of Pretoria.