The Maula Cathedral or simply Cathedral of Lilongwe, is a religious building belonging to the Catholic Church and is located in the town of
Lilongwe
Lilongwe (, , ) is the capital and most populated city of the African country of Malawi. It has a population of 989,318 as of the 2018 Census, up from a population of 674,448 in 2008. In 2020 that figure was 1,122,000. The city is located in th ...
the capital and largest city of the African country of
Malawi.
Administratively it is included in the Central Region, near the M1 highway and the Civo Stadium.
The cathedral follows the Roman or Latin rite and serves as the headquarters of the Metropolitan
Archdiocese of Lilongwe
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lilongwe ( la, Archidioecesis Lilongvensis) is the Roman Catholic archdiocese located in Lilongwe in Malawi. Before its elevation to an archdiocese in 2011, it had belonged to the ecclesiastical province of the Ar ...
(''Archidioecesis Lilongvensis'') which was created as a diocese by
Pope John XXIII in 1959 and got its present status in 2011 under the bula ''Quotiescumque Evangelii'' of the
Pope Benedict XVI.
It is under the pastoral responsibility of Archbishop Tarcisius Gervazio Ziyaye.
See also
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Roman Catholicism in Malawi
The Catholic Church in Malawi is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome and the Malawi bishops.
History
The first Catholic missionaries were White Fathers (Pères Blancs in French) who arrived i ...
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Cathedral
References
Roman Catholic cathedrals in Malawi
Buildings and structures in Lilongwe
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