Archdiocese of Nampula

Archidioecesis Nampulensis
Our Lady of Fatima Cathedral
Location
CountryMozambique
Ecclesiastical provinceNampula
Statistics
Population
- Total
- Catholics
(as of 2015)
4,000,000
536,700 (13.4%)
Information
DenominationRoman Catholic
RiteRoman Rite
Established4 September 1940
CathedralOur Lady of Fatima Cathedral
Current leadership
PopeFrancis
ArchbishopInácio Saure, I.M.C.
Auxiliary BishopsErnesto Maguengue

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.

Its cathedral is the Catedral Metropolitana de Nossa Senhora de Fátima, dedicated to the diocesan patron saint Our Lady of Fatima, in Nampula.

History

The Diocese of Nampula was established on September 4, 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 April 5, 1957, to establish the Diocese of Porto Amélia (now its suffragan Pemba) and on July 21, 1963, to establish the Diocese of Vila Cabral (now its suffragan Lichinga)

On June 4, 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 October 11, 1991, to establish the Diocese of Nacala as its suffragan.

Statistics

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.

Ecclesiastical province

Its suffragan sees were all daughters (comment refers to three dioceses in this province before Gurué was shifted here from another province) :

Episcopal ordinaries

(all Roman rite)

Suffragan Bishops of Nampula
  • Teófilo José Pereira de Andrade, Friars Minor (O.F.M.) (born Portugal) (1941.05.12 – retired 1951.02.17), emeritus as Titular Bishop of Urusi (1951.02.17 – death 1954.10.25)
  • Manuel de Medeiros Guerreiro (?Portuguese) (1951.03.02 – retired 1966.11.30), previously Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of São Tomé de Meliapor (India) (1937.04.10 – 1951.03.02); emeritus as Titular Bishop of Præcausa (1966.11.30 – resigned 1971.01.27), died 1978
  • Manuel Vieira Pinto (1967.04.21 – 1984.06.04 see below), President of Episcopal Conference of Mozambique (1975 – 1976)
Metropolitan Archbishops of Nampula

See also

References

  1. "Rinunce e nomine".

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