The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nampula ( la, Nampulen(sis)) is an archbishopric and the metropolitan

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for one of the three

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in Africa, yet still depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. Its

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is the Catedral Metropolitana de Nossa Senhora de Fátima, dedicated to the diocesan

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Nampula Nampula is the capital city of Nampula Province in Northern Mozambique. With a population of 743,125 (2017 census), it is the third-largest city in Mozambique after Maputo and Matola. The city is located in the interior of Nampula Province, approxi ...

History

The Diocese of Nampula was established on September 4, 1940, by

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's papal bull ''Sollemnibus Conventionibus'', on territory split off from the

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, which was simultaneously promoted and became its metropolitan as the

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(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

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's papal bull, ''Quo efficacius''; he made a

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in September 1988. Nampula lost territory on October 11, 1991, to establish the

Diocese of Nacala The Roman Catholic Diocese of Nacala ( la, Nacalan(a)) is a diocese located in the city of Nacala in the Ecclesiastical province of Nampula in Mozambique. History * October 11, 1991: Established as Diocese of Nacala from the Metropolitan Archdi ...

as its suffragan.

Statistics

As per 2014, it pastorally served 485,813 Catholics (13.7% of 3,547,000 total) on 51,000 km 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

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

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Lichinga The Roman Catholic Diocese of Lichinga ( la, Lichingaën(sis)) is a diocese located in the city of Lichinga in the Ecclesiastical province of Nampula in Mozambique. History * July 21, 1963: Established as Diocese of Vila Cabral from the Diocese ...

(formerly Vila Cabral) *

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Pemba The Roman Catholic Diocese of Pemba ( la, Pemban(a)) is a diocese located in the city of Pemba in the Ecclesiastical province of Nampula in Mozambique. History * April 5, 1957: Established as Diocese of Porto Amélia from the Diocese of Nampula ...

(formerly Porto Amélia),

Episcopal ordinaries

(all

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) ;''Suffragan Bishops of Nampula'' *

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(O.F.M.) (born Portugal) (1941.05.12 – retired 1951.02.17), emeritus as

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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 (

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) (1937.04.10 – 1951.03.02); emeritus as Titular Bishop of

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(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'' * Manuel Vieira Pinto (''see above'' 1984.06.04 – retired 2000.11.16), also

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of the suffragan Diocese of Pemba (Mozambique) (1992.12.12 – 1998.01.18) ** Auxiliary Bishop Germano Grachane,

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(C.M.) (1990.01.22 – 1991.10.11),

of Thunusuda (1990.01.22 – 1991.10.11); later first bishop of suffragan daughter see

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(Mozambique) (1991.10.11 – ...) * Tomé Makhweliha,

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(S.C.I.) (2000.11.16 - retired 2016.07.25), also President of Episcopal Conference of Mozambique (2006 – 2009); previously Bishop of

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(Mozambique) (1997.10.24 – 2000.11.16) **''

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(2014.08.06 – ...) as Auxiliary Bishop of Nampula (2014.08.06 – ...); previously Bishop of the

(Mozambique) (2004.06.24 – 2012.10.27) * Inácio Saure,

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(I.M.C.) (2017.04.11 – ...), previously Bishop of the

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(Mozambique) (2011.04.12 – 2017.04.11).

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