The Diocese of Mutare & The Carmelites in Zimbabwe - the Irish ...

Fathers looked after St. Pauls from town. The Church, Priest’s house were constructed and
the Parish was established during 1989 with the coming of the Kiltegan Fathers. Saint Pauls
is a very active Parish with resident Fathers and Sisters. Saint Barnabas has still to be
developed in the Dangamvura Parish.
St. James’ Parish. Chipinge. Chipinge town was an outstation of St. Charles Lwanga,
Chimanimani up to 1989 and now has its own Parish Clergy and Carmelite Sisters. The
Franciscan Sisters went to Chipinge during 2000 and the Carmelite Sisters replaced the
Franciscans during 2008.
1990 Carmelite Sister’s Motherhouse. Mutare.
1992 The Diocesan Pastoral Training Centre. Mutare.
DOMCCP, Saint Dominic’s, Mutare.
1993 The Spiritan District House, Fern Valley was blessed and opened on the 14.02.96.
1994 Bishop Patrick Mutume. Residence. Hospital Hill, Mutare.
1998 Administrator’s House, Cathedral grounds.
1999 Youth Alive. Franciscan Sisters. Mutare.
The Franciscan Sisters have continued to the present day to provide various services to the
community in the Mutare area, in the surrounding areas and in the Diocese of Mutare. The
Sisters are also very much involved in Youth Alive, services to women in need and at the
Zororai Old People’s Home in Sakubva.
Saint Francis of Assisi. Zimunya.
2000 Saint Mary’s High School. Chikanga.
2001 Carmelite Sister’s General Chapter. Sister Theresa Nyadombo elected Mother General,
August 2001.
The Carmelite Sister’s Generalate House was founded in the Murambi area of Mutare
during 2001.
2002 Amai Maria Village.
2003 Bishop Lamont died in Ireland on the 14 th of August.
Sisters of the Divine Child. Nyanga.
2004 Bishop Lamont House founded.
Official closure of the Killaloe Mission to Zimbabwe, the 7 th of June 2004.
2005 Pope John Paul 11 died in Rome on the 02.04.05
2006 Father Simplisio Manyika elected the first Zimbabwean Carmelite Commissary Provincial.
June 2006.
2007 Sister Evelyn Kadzere elected the Mother General of the Carmelite Sisters at their General
Chapter. August 2007.
2008 Doctor Irene Von Furstenberg died in Mutare on the 15.06.08.
Children’s Home established in Nyanga.
Saint Patrick’s Missionary Society, the Kiltegan Fathers, completed their Mission in the
Diocese of Mutare during 2008. During their 19 years in the Mutare Diocese, the Kiltegan
Fathers served at Saint Paul’s Parish Dangamvura, Saint Columba’s Mission, Saint
Benedict’s Mission, Headlands, The Bishop’s House, were engaged in Justice and Peace
ministry and supplied at the Cathedral, Mutare. Father Michael Bennett was the last
Kiltegan Father to serve in the Mutare Diocese. The Kiltegan Fathers came to Zimbabwe
during 1989 and they now continue ministry in the Archdiocese of Harare, in the
Marondera area.
The Fathers from the Diocese of Ardagh and Clonmacnois, Ireland completed their Mission
in Zimbabwe during 2008.
The Diocese very graciously gave three Priests to the Diocese of Mutare over a nine year
period, 1999 to 2008.
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