Archdiocese of Nampula
| Archdiocese of Nampula | |
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Country | Mozambique |
| Diocesan bishop | Inácio Acid IMC |
| Auxiliary bishop | Ernesto Maguengue |
| Emeritus diocesan bishop | Tomé Makhweliha SCI |
| surface | 51,000 km² |
| Parishes | 40 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Residents | 3,698,000 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Catholics | 499,000 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| proportion of | 13.5% |
| Diocesan priest | 44 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Religious priest | 34 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 6,397 |
| Friars | 81 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Religious sisters | 197 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | Portuguese |
| cathedral | Catedral Metropolitana de Nossa Senhora de Fátima |
| Website | www.arquidiocesenampula.org |
| Suffragan dioceses |
Lichinga Nacala Pemba |
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The Archdiocese of Nampula ( Latin Archidioecesis Nampulensis , Portuguese Arquidiocese de Nampula ) is in Mozambique situated Roman Catholic archdiocese , based in Nampula . It includes part of the province of Nampula .
history
Pope Pius XII founded the Diocese of Nampula with the Apostolic Constitution Sollemnibus Conventionibus on September 4, 1940 from cessions of territory of the Archdiocese of Lourenço Marques , to which it was also subordinated as a suffragan. With the Bull Quo efficacius on June 4, 1984 it was raised to the rank of Metropolitan Archbishopric .
It lost parts of its territory in favor of the establishment of the following dioceses:
- April 5, 1957 to the Diocese of Porto Amélia ;
- July 21, 1963 to the diocese of Vila Cabral ;
- October 11, 1991 to the Diocese of Nacala .
Ordinaries
Bishops of Nampula
- Teófilo José Pereira de Andrade OFM (May 12, 1941 - February 17, 1951)
- Manuel de Medeiros Guerreiro (March 2, 1951 - November 30, 1966)
- Manuel Vieira Pinto (April 21, 1967 - June 4, 1984)
Archbishop of Nampula
- Manuel Vieira Pinto (June 4, 1984 - November 16, 2000)
- Tomé Makhweliha SCI (November 16, 2000– July 25, 2016)
- Inácio Saure IMC (since April 11, 2017)
statistics
| year | population | priest | Permanent deacons |
Religious | Parishes | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Catholics | Residents | % | Total number | Diocesan priest | Religious priest | Catholics per priest | male | Female | |||
| 1949 | 31,041 | 1,919,767 | 1.6 | 74 | 4th | 70 | 419 | 51 | 57 | 4th | |
| 1970 | 224,342 | 1,850,000 | 12.1 | 87 | 12 | 75 | 2,578 | 105 | 125 | 8th | |
| 1980 | 248,752 | 1,973,000 | 12.6 | 44 | 6th | 38 | 5,653 | 1 | 56 | 82 | 52 |
| 1990 | 295,340 | 3,003,000 | 9.8 | 46 | 6th | 40 | 6,420 | 57 | 115 | 55 | |
| 2000 | 261,833 | 2,000,000 | 13.1 | 39 | 17th | 22nd | 6,713 | 54 | 156 | 36 | |
| 2004 | 308.111 | 2,700,000 | 11.4 | 67 | 36 | 31 | 4,598 | 82 | 144 | 37 | |
| 2013 | 448.289 | 3,474,000 | 12.9 | 76 | 36 | 40 | 5,898 | 98 | 161 | 40 | |
See also
Web links
Commons : Archdiocese of Nampula - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Entry on Archdiocese of Nampula on catholic-hierarchy.org (English)
- Entry on Archdiocese of Nampula on gcatholic.org (English)