The local assembly of bishops is the Episcopal Conference of Mozambique (

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: Conferencia Episcopal de Moçambique, CEM). The ECM is a member of the Inter-Regional Meeting of Bishops of Southern Africa (IMBISA) and Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM). List of presidents of the Bishops' Conference: 1967–1969:

Custódio Alvim Pereira Custódio Alvim Pereira (6 February 1915 – 12 November 2006) was a Portuguese clergyman, who was Archbishop of Lourenço Marques in Mozambique in the 1960s and early 1970s. Born in São João do Monte, Portugal, he was ordained on 18 December 193 ...

, Archbishop of

Maputo Maputo (), formerly named Lourenço Marques until 1976, is the capital, and largest city of Mozambique. Located near the southern end of the country, it is within of the borders with Eswatini and South Africa. The city has a population of 1,0 ...

1969–1975:

Francisco Nunes Teixeira Francisco Nunes Teixeira (26 January 1910 − 2 March 1999) was a Portuguese-born Mozambican Roman Catholic bishop. Ordained to the priesthood in 1933, Teixeira was named bishop in February 1955. In May 1955, he was appointed bishop of the Roman ...

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Quelimane Quelimane () is a seaport in Mozambique. It is the administrative capital of the Zambezia Province and the province's largest city, and stands from the mouth of the Rio dos Bons Sinais (or "River of the Good Signs"). The river was named when Va ...

1975–1976: Manuel Vieira Pinto, Archbishop of

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, approx ...

1976–1986:

Jaime Pedro Gonçalves Jaime Pedro Gonçalves (26 November 1936 – 6 April 2016) was a Mozambican Roman Catholic archbishop. Ordained to the priesthood in 1967, Gonçalves was named a bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Beira, Mozambique Mozambique ...

, Archbishop of Beira 1986–1993:

Paulo Mandlate Paulo Mandlate S.S.S. (4 February 1934 – 21 August 2019) was a Mozambican prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the Bishop of Tete from 1976 to 2009. He was born in Gaza Province on 4 February 1934. He was ordained a priest of the ...

Tete Tete is the capital city of Tete Province in Mozambique. It is located on the Zambezi River, and is the site of two of the four bridges crossing the river in Mozambique. A Swahili trade center before the Portuguese colonial era, Tete continue ...

1993–2002:

Francisco João Silota Francisco is the Spanish and Portuguese form of the masculine given name ''Franciscus''. Nicknames In Spanish, people with the name Francisco are sometimes nicknamed "Paco". San Francisco de Asís was known as ''Pater Comunitatis'' (father of ...

Chimoio Chimoio is the capital of Manica Province in Mozambique. It is the fifth-largest city in Mozambique. Chimoio's name under Portuguese administration was ''Vila Pery''. Vila Pery developed under Portuguese rule as an important agricultural and tex ...

2002–2006:

, Archbishop of Beira 2006–2009: Tume Makhweliha, Archbishop of

From 2009:

Lucio Andrice Muandula Lucio Andrice Muandula (born 9 October 1959) is a Mozambican prelate of the Catholic Church who has been bishop of Xai-Xai since 2004. He was president of the Episcopal Conference of Mozambique from 2009 to 2015 and from 2018 to 2021 and president ...

Xai-Xai Xai-Xai () is a city in the south of Mozambique. Until 1975, the city was named João Belo. It is the capital of Gaza Province. As of 2007 it has a population of 116,343. History Portuguese rule Xai-Xai, formerly João Belo, developed in the e ...

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* https://web.archive.org/web/20090522133049/http://www.juspax.co.mz/ * http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/country/MZ.htm * http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/country/mz.html {{Subject bar , portal1= Catholicism , portal2= Africa

Mozambique Mozambique (), officially the Republic of Mozambique ( pt, Moçambique or , ; ny, Mozambiki; sw, Msumbiji; ts, Muzambhiki), is a country located in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi ...

Catholic Church in Mozambique 1967 establishments in Mozambique it:Chiesa cattolica in Mozambico#Conferenza episcopale

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