Church Verification Report
What we checked
- Not a duplicate: no similarly named church is listed with us
- The name reads as a real congregation
- Contact email reviewed (gmail.com, common for small churches)
- No website or social page was provided
- Independent web search performed: see the findings on the right
What we found
We searched for a Sacred Heart congregation in Cape Town and found a real, long-established parish. The Archdiocese of Cape Town's own parish register lists "Green Point: Sacred Heart", a parish established in 1883 with the church blessed and opened in 1910, at the corner of Somerset Road and Napier Street, with the priest resident at St Margaret Mary, 19 Cheviot Place Road, Green Point, telephone 021 434 3324, and Sunday Mass at 10:30 (adct.org.za). A Wikimedia Commons category holds photographs of Sacred Heart Catholic Church on Somerset Road at Napier Street in De Waterkant, Cape Town, confirming the building itself. The Archdiocese of Cape Town is a recognised Catholic jurisdiction covering the city with 74 parishes (Wikipedia). The findings are summarized here for space; the full research was weighed in the review.
Our conclusion: An independent search found this parish listed on the Archdiocese of Cape Town's own register as "Green Point: Sacred Heart", a parish established in 1883 with its church opened in 1910 at the corner of Somerset Road and Napier Street, with a listed telephone number and Sunday Mass at 10:30. Photographs of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church building in Cape Town further confirm the congregation exists, and the Catholic Church plainly holds the hist
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