Manuel Nunes Gabriel

Manuel Nunes Gabriel (born December 20, 1912 in Fundada , Portugal , † October 20, 1996 in Portugal) was a Portuguese Roman Catholic missionary and bishop . From 1966 to 1975 he was Archbishop of Luanda .

Life

Manuel Nunes Gabriel was ordained a priest on July 7, 1935 and from then on worked as a missionary in Angola .

Pope Pius XII appointed him on December 5, 1957 as the first bishop of the newly established diocese of Malanje . He was ordained bishop on December 21 of the same year by the later Cardinal Fernando Cento , then Apostolic Nuncio in Portugal. Co- consecrators were Moisés Alves de Pinho , Archbishop of Luanda, and Daniel Gomes Junqueira , Bishop of Nova Lisboa . On February 13, Pope John XXIII appointed him . as Coadjutor Archbishop of Luanda. He took part in the first and last session of the Second Vatican Council between 1962 and 1965 .

After Moisés Alves de Pinho's age-related resignation on November 17, 1966, Nunes Gabriel succeeded him as archbishop on the same day. During his term of office, the climax of the Angolan independence efforts against the Portuguese colonial rule fell. The Catholic Church opposed the communist independence movement MPLA , which was to become the country's most important party after independence.

On December 19, 1975, one month after Angola's independence, Manuel Nunes Gabriel resigned from office. He died in 1996 and was later buried in Malanje , where his ministry began.

Publications

• 1978: Angola, cinco séculos de cristianismo

Web links

• Entry on Manuel Nunes Gabriel on catholic-hierarchy.org
• Article on the funeral in Malanje (Portuguese)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Review of Angola, cinco séculos de cristianismo on the University of Cambridge website
2. ↑ Search result on Google Books

predecessor	Office	successor
Moisés Alves de Pinho CSSp	Archbishop of Luanda 1966–1975	Eduardo André Muaca