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Roman Catholic archdiocese in Mozambique From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nampula (Latin: Nampulen(sis)) is an archbishopric and the metropolitan see for one of the three ecclesiastical provinces in Mozambique in (south)eastern Africa, yet still depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
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Archdiocese of Nampula Archidioecesis Nampulensis | |
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Location | |
Country | Mozambique |
Ecclesiastical province | Nampula |
Statistics | |
Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2015) 4,000,000 536,700 (13.4%) |
Information | |
Denomination | 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 |
Its cathedral is the Catedral Metropolitana de Nossa Senhora de Fátima, dedicated to the diocesan patron saint Our Lady of Fatima, in Nampula.
The Diocese of Nampula was established on 4 September 1940 by Pope Pius XII's papal bull Sollemnibus Conventionibus, on territory split off from the Territorial Prelature of Mozambique, which was simultaneously promoted and became its metropolitan as the Archdiocese of Lourenço Marques (now Maputo). Nampula lost land on 5 April 1957, to establish the Diocese of Porto Amélia (now its suffragan Pemba) and on 21 July 1963, to establish the Diocese of Vila Cabral (now its suffragan Lichinga)
On 4 June 1984 it was promoted to the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Nampula by Pope John Paul II's papal bull, Quo efficacius; he made a papal visit in September 1988.
Nampula lost territory on 11 October 1991, to establish the Diocese of Nacala as its suffragan.
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.
Its suffragan sees were all daughters (comment refers to three dioceses in this province before Gurué was shifted here from another province) :
(all Roman rite)
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