The Sacred Heart Cathedral ( pt, Catedral do Sagrado Coração de Maliana) or simply Cathedral of Maliana and more formally Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, is a religious building affiliated with the Catholic Church which is located in the town of

Maliana Maliana is a city in East Timor, 149 kilometers southwest of Dili, the national capital. It has a population of 22,000. It is the capital of the Districts of East Timor, district of Bobonaro District, Bobonaro and Maliana Subdistrict, and is ...

in Bobonaro district, near the border with

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. The Cathedral follows the Roman or Latin rite and serves as the seat of the diocese of Maliana (''Dioecesis Malianensis'' or ''Diocese de Maliana'') which was created in 2010 by bull ''"Missionalem Ecclesiae"'' of the

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. It is under the pastoral responsibility of the Bishop Norberto Do Amaral.

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Roman Catholic cathedrals in East Timor Maliana {{Asia-church-stub

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