Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cape Town

The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Cape Town {Latin: Archidioecesis Civitatis Capitis) is a Latin archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Cape Town, in the south-western part of South Africa. The archdiocese's motherchurch and its archbishop's see is the cathedral of St. Mary of the Flight into Egypt, who is also the archbishopric's patron.

The archdiocese is headed by the Archbishop of Cape Town, the Most Reverend Archbishop Stephen Brislin. As of 2013^[update] the Archbishop-elect of Cape Town was Stephen Brislin, having been appointed by Pope Benedict XVI on 18 December 2009. He succeeded Archbishop Emeritus Lawrence Patrick Henry.

It was erected as the Apostolic Vicariate of Cape of Good Hope (and adjacent territories) on 18 June 1818 by Pope Pius VII, on territories split off from the then–Territorial Prelature of Mozambique and Diocese of Tomé.

On 4 April 1819, it gained territory from the suppressed Apostolic Prefecture of New Holland.

It repeatedly lost territory, to establish: in 1834 the Apostolic Vicariate of New Holland and Van Diemen's Land and again on 6 June 1837 to establish the Apostolic Vicariate of Mauritius.

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