DIOCESE OF ZULULAND
Cathedral: Pro-Cathedral of St Peter’s, Vryheid;[1] most recently St Michael and All Angels, Eshowe.[2]
Afrikaans
Arms granted by the College of Arms under Letters Patent dated 9 April 1954. The blazon reads:
Sable, a bamboo cross eradicated at the foot proper, on a canton Azure bordured Argent a mullet, also Argent; a base Vert charged with an anchor Or.
Brownell[3] writes: “This is an amended version of the original arms borne by the Diocese from 1870-1954. The cross is clearly of bamboo and the addition of the border around the canton has partially corrected the false heraldry in the earlier versions of these arms.”
Webmaster’s note: Although the cross is blazoned as being proper, the simplest course was to make it the same yellow as the gold of the anchor.
Bishops:
Bishop E J Trapp (consecrated 1947) was in office when the diocese was granted its arms in 1954. His successors have been T J Savage (1958), Alpheus Zulu (1966), L B Zulu (1974, translated to Swaziland in 1993), P Harker (1993) and A T B Mdletshe (1997).
The diocese, which included the Swaziland Protectorate, was in 1968 divided and Bishop A G W Hunter was elected to serve in Mbabane, now the capital of the Kingdom of Swaziland.
Afrikaanse blasoen:
Die wapen se blasoen lui:
In swart, ’n ontwortelde bamboeskruis van natuurlike kleur; op ’n vryhoek van blou met silwer omboorsel, ’n vyfpuntige ster ook van silwer; ’n groen skildvoet belaai met ’n goue anker.
