Pope appoints Bishop for
Oudtshoorn, South Africa
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| View of Cape Town where Bishop-elected Rucastle is from |
Pope Francis has appointed Bishop Noel Rucastle as Bishop of
Oudtshoorn in South Africa.
By Vatican News
Pope Francis has appointed Reverend Father Noel Andrew
Rucastle Bishop of the Diocese of Oudtshoorn in South Africa.
Bishop-elect Rucastle is from Cape Town and previously served as judicial Vicar
and pastor of Our Lady of Fatima Parish in Belleville.
Bishop Noel Andrew Rucastle was born on April 22, 1968 in
Kimberley. After attending St. Patrick's Christian Brothers' College in
Kimberley, he studied Civil Law at the University of the Free State (South
Africa).
In 1993 he entered the St. Francis Xavier Propaedeutic
Seminary in Cape Town. He studied Philosophy at St. Peter's Major Seminary in
Garsfontein (1994-1995) and Theology at St. John Vianney National Major Seminary
(1996-1998). Later, he completed his theological training at the Archiepiscopal
Seminary of Cape Town, obtaining a baccalaureate at St. Joseph's Theological
Institute in Cedara in 1999. He was ordained a priest on July 14, 2000,
incardinated in the Archdiocese of Cape Town.
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