Roman Catholicism was introduced into Basutoland in 1832, when French
missionaries established their first mission at Roma.
The territory was first included in the Apostolic Vicariates of Natal (until
1886) and of Orange Free State (after 1886), but in 1893 it became a separate
Apostolic Prefecture.
This became an Apostolic Vicariate in 1909.
Prefects Apostolic
1894 - 1895 Odilon Monginoux
1895 - 1897 Alexandre Baudry
1897 - 1909 Jules Joseph Cénez 1865 - 1944
Vicars Apostolic
1909 - 1930 Jules Joseph Cénez, Titular Bishop of
Nicopolis in ... s.a.
1930 - 1933 ...
1933 - 19.. Joseph Bonhomme, Titular Bishop of Tulana
in Africa Proconsularis 1889 -
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