Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nampula
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Archdiocese of Nampula Archidioecesis Nampulensis | |
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Location | |
Country | Roman Catholic |
Rite | Roman Rite |
Established | 4 September 1940 |
Cathedral | Our Lady of Fatima Cathedral |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Archbishop | Inácio Saure, I.M.C. |
Auxiliary Bishops | Ernesto Maguengue |
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nampula (
Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples
.
Its
Our Lady of Fatima, in Nampula
.
History
The Diocese of Nampula was established on 4 September 1940 by
Diocese of Vila Cabral
(now its suffragan Lichinga)
On 4 June 1984 it was promoted to the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Nampula by
papal visit
in September 1988.
Nampula lost territory on 11 October 1991, to establish the
Diocese of Nacala
as its suffragan.
Statistics
As per 2014, it pastorally served 485,813 Catholics (13.7% of 3,547,000 total) on 51,000 km2 in 40 parishes and a mission with 75 priests (36 diocesan, 39 religious), 270 lay religious (96 brothers, 174 sisters) and 19 seminarians.
Ecclesiastical province
Its
suffragan
sees were all daughters (comment refers to three dioceses in this province before Gurué was shifted here from another province) :
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Gurué
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Lichinga (formerly Vila Cabral)
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Nacala
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Pemba (formerly Porto Amélia),
Episcopal ordinaries
(all
Roman rite
)
- Suffragan Bishops of Nampula
- Titular Bishop of Urusi(1951.02.17 – death 1954.10.25)
- Præcausa(1966.11.30 – resigned 1971.01.27), died 1978
- Manuel Vieira Pinto (1967.04.21 – 1984.06.04 see below), President of Episcopal Conference of Mozambique (1975 – 1976)
- Metropolitan Archbishops of Nampula
- Diocese of Pemba(Mozambique) (1992.12.12 – 1998.01.18)
- Thunusuda (1990.01.22 – 1991.10.11); later first bishop of suffragan daughter see Nacala(Mozambique) (1991.10.11 – ...)
- Tomé Makhweliha, Dehonians (S.C.I.) (2000.11.16 - retired 2016.07.25), also President of Episcopal Conference of Mozambique (2006 – 2009); previously Bishop of Pemba (Mozambique) (1997.10.24 – 2000.11.16) [1]
- Auxiliary Bishop of Nampula (2014.08.06 – ...); previously Bishop of the Pemba(Mozambique) (2004.06.24 – 2012.10.27)
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- Inácio Saure, Consolata Missionaries (I.M.C.) (2017.04.11 – ...), previously Bishop of the Tete (Mozambique) (2011.04.12 – 2017.04.11).
See also
- List of Catholic dioceses in Mozambique
- Roman Catholicism in Mozambique