Bishopric of Sumbe
Bishopric of Sumbe | |
Basic data | |
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Country | Angola |
Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Luanda |
Diocesan bishop | Luzizila Kiala |
founding | 1975 |
surface | 60,000 km² |
Parishes | 18 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
Residents | 1,456,000 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
Catholics | 395.125 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
proportion of | 27.1% |
Diocesan priest | 36 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
Religious priest | 8 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
Catholics per priest | 8,980 |
Friars | 10 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
Religious sisters | 84 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
rite | Roman rite |
Liturgical language | Portuguese |
cathedral | Sé Catedral de Nossa Senhora da Conceição |
The Bistum Sumbe ( lat. : Dioecesis Sumbensis ) is in Angola preferred Roman Catholic diocese based in Sumbe .
history
Pope Paul VI founded the diocese of Ngunza with the Apostolic Constitution Qui provido Dei on August 10, 1975 from cessions of territory from the Archdiocese of Luanda , to which it was also subordinated as a suffragan diocese.
It took the name Diocese of Novo Redondo on February 3, 1977. On October 22, 2006, it took on its current name.
Ordinaries
Bishop of Ngunza
- Zacarias Kamwenho (1975-1977)
Bishops of Novo Redondo, from 2006 of Sumbe
- Zacarias Kamwenho (1977–1995), then Coadjutor Archbishop of Lubango
- Benedito Roberto CSSp (1995–2012)
- Luzizila Kiala (since 2013)