Cathedral of Santa Teresa de Livingstone
Next to the Victoria Falls, the Zambian city of Livingstone has as its mother church the Cathedral of Santa Teresa del Niño Jesus, the seat of the diocese of Livingstone. The constituency was born in 1936 as an apostolic prefecture of Victoria Falls and is now a living diocese of the ecclesiastical province of Lusaka.
🌹 Wonders and anecdotes
- The cathedral is dedicated to St. Teresa of the Child Jesus, patron of the missions, an eloquent vocation for a church born on mission land by the Zambeze River.
- The seat was erected on 25 May 1936 as the Apostolic prefecture of Victoria Falls, elevated to the Apostolic Vicariate of Livingstone on 10 March 1950 and to the diocese on 25 April 1959.
- In 1997 the diocese gave up part of its territory for the creation of the Diocese of Mongu, a sign of the ripening of the Church in the west of Zambia.
- His present bishop, Mons. Valentine Kalumba, named in 2016, is an Oblate Missionary of Mary Immaculate: the diocese is herded by a son of a Marian congregation, with the motto "Let all be one."
Santa Teresa (Livingstone)
The Cathedral of Santa Teresa del Niño Jesus presided over the diocese of Livingstone, born in 1936 next to the Victoria Falls. Under the patronage of the missions, and with an Oblate Bishop of Mary Immaculate, the Church of southern Zambia continues to grow with simplicity and hope.
"The patron of the missions, Saint Teresa of the Child Jesus, pray for Zambia; Mary Immaculate, accompanies her pastors.
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