Brown plaque № 6400

Knysna, South Africa

1859. St Boniface's Catholic Church. The Roman Catholic community in Knysna was founded around 1861, when a small chapel and schoolroom were built in Queen Street by Father Rooney of George where the present presbytery now stands. The first church was consecrated in 1863. The first resident priest w

as appointed in 1891. During the visit of the Rt. Rev. Bruno Hippel of Oudtshoorn to Knysna in 1949, planning started on the building of a new church in Queen Street, and a building subscription fund

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