St Martin de Porres Parish is one among other early Parishes to be established in and around Bulawayo. It was built in 1960 under the influence of Rev. Fr. Sixtus Impler (CMM) from Germany. Before construction of the Church building, services were initially conducted in the Rangemore School in 1958 and subsequently in 1959 in a metal shed under a tree in the Church grounds. Since then the Parish had been a sub-station of St Anthony's Parish, Barham Green until late 2001. Geographically the Church is situated in Rangemore , a peri-urban farming area 16 kilometers south-west from the heart of the City of Kings, Bulawayo. 

The Church ground was donated by Mr Joseph Fynn. The fact that it has been a sub-station to another parish, its parish leaders had never had any chance of participating in such afford  which in my view disadvantaged them a lot. This truly has been a stumbling block to witness the ongoing formation in this parish instead the number of parishioners continued to diminish to some extent that a Sunday service could be around a two digit figure of parishioners.

The situation started to improve in the mid 1990's after the development of the Emganwini Residential area where quite a handful of Catholics attending Church at this parish come from. Because the Community continued to grow significantly, Parish Priest of The Holy Family Parish, Rev. Fr. Tadeusz Grenda SVD advocated for the merger of the Emganwini - Holy Family serviced Catholics with the Rangemore, St Martin serviced Catholics. This necessitated the application for a new and bigger stand at Emganwini for the new community which could not fit in the Church at St Martin de Porres, Rangemore. The stand was officially leased to the Church in October 2000 and the merger of these two communities was completed in December 2001, when a new Priest Fr. Zbigniew Oldynski SVD took over charge of these two Parishes.

Since 2002 Fr. Maciek Malicki SVD is serving our Parish, St Martin the Porres.

18.07.2004 – we opened a new, bigger church. We are again an independent Parish.

photos from the opening

S. Dzivumbu, Chairman of The Parish Council