The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Malabo is the Metropolitan

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History

* 1855.10.10: Established as Apostolic Vicariate of Annobon, Corisco and Fernando Poo Islands from the

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* 1904.05.12: Renamed as Apostolic Vicariate of Fernando Poo * 1966.05.03: Promoted as Diocese of Santa Isabel * 1974.04.14: Renamed as Diocese of Malabo * 1982.10.15: Promoted as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Malabo

Ordinaries

Vicars Apostolic

# Armengol Coll y Armengol, CMF (August 1890 – 21 April 1918) # Nicolás González y Pérez, CMF (24 August 1918 – 23 March 1935) # Leoncio Fernández Galilea, CMF (18 June 1935 – 15 February 1957) # Francisco Gómez Marijuán, CMF (14 November 1957 – 3 May 1966)

Bishops and Archbishops of Malabo

# Francisco Gómez Marijuán, CMF (3 May 1966 – 9 May 1974) # Vicente Bernikon (9 May 1974 – 14 September 1976) #

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, CMF (21 October 1982 – 7 July 1991) #

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(9 July 1991 – 11 February 2015) # Juan Nsue Edjang Mayé (11 February 2015 – )

Suffragan dioceses

* Bata *

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Note: The

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and the

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were established as new suffragan sees (dioceses) of the Malabo Archdiocese Province by

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on April 1, 2017

References

Sources

GCatholic.org
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