united by faith and love for God

history

Catholic community united by faith and love

It all began when the Jesuits first arrived in Harare (Salisbury); 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 Mgr 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.