Diocese of Ndalatando
Diocese of Ndalatando | |
Basic data | |
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Country | Angola |
Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Malanje |
Diocesan bishop | Almeida Kanda |
founding | 1990 |
surface | 19,357 km² |
Parishes | 9 (2013 / AP 2014 ) |
Residents | 443,000 (2013 / AP 2014 ) |
Catholics | 225,617 (2013 / AP 2014 ) |
proportion of | 50.9% |
Diocesan priest | 7 (2013 / AP 2014 ) |
Religious priest | 17 (2013 / AP 2014 ) |
Catholics per priest | 9,401 |
Friars | 24 (2013 / AP 2014 ) |
Religious sisters | 67 (2013 / AP 2014 ) |
rite | Roman rite |
Liturgical language | Portuguese |
cathedral | Sé Catedral de São João Baptista |
The Bistum Ndalatando ( lat. : Dioecesis Ndalatandensis ) is in Angola preferred Roman Catholic diocese based in N'dalatando . It covers part of the Cuanza Norte province .
history
Pope John Paul II founded it with the Apostolic Constitution Peculiari quidem on March 26, 1990 from cessions of territory from the Archdiocese of Luanda , to which it was also subordinated as a suffragan diocese. On April 12, 2011 it became part of the ecclesiastical province of the Archdiocese of Malanje .
Bishops of Ndalatando
- Pedro Luís Guido Scarpa OFMCap (March 26, 1990 - July 23, 2005)
- Almeida Kanda (since July 23, 2005)
statistics
year | population | priest | Permanent deacons | Religious | Parishes | ||||||
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Catholics | Residents | % | Total number | Diocesan priest | Religious priest | Catholics per priest | male | Female | |||
1990 | 90,000 | 230,000 | 39.1 | 15th | 15th | 6,000 | 18th | 23 | 6th | ||
1999 | 193,950 | 408,600 | 47.5 | 20th | 1 | 19th | 9,697 | 26th | 53 | 8th | |
2000 | 193,950 | 408,600 | 47.5 | 17th | 1 | 16 | 11,408 | 24 | 48 | 8th | |
2001 | 193,500 | 400,000 | 48.4 | 17th | 2 | 15th | 11,382 | 21st | 46 | 8th | |
2002 | 163,000 | 359,000 | 45.4 | 16 | 2 | 14th | 10.187 | 19th | 44 | 8th | |
2003 | 163,000 | 359,000 | 45.4 | 19th | 4th | 15th | 8,578 | 22nd | 47 | 8th | |
2004 | 189,100 | 359,000 | 52.7 | 21st | 5 | 16 | 9.004 | 22nd | 49 | 8th |