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Metropolitan see Blantyre, Malawi

Archdiocese of Blantyre

Blantyren(sis)

Latin Church

Metropolitan archdiocese in southern Malawi, founded in 1903 as the Apostolic Prefecture of Shiré and elevated to an archdiocese in 1959. It is led by Archbishop Thomas Luke Msusa and has suffragans Chikwawa, Mangochi, and Zomba.

On the map

Esri
The address the register holds for Our Lady of Wisdom Cathedral, in Blantyre, Malawi.

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Established
1903
Catholics
3,200,000
Priests
201
Territory
9,166 km²

Parishes and churches

36 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.

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The bishop

Archbishop
Thomas Luke Msusa, S.M.M.

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The cathedral

Our Lady of Wisdom Cathedral stands in Blantyre, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

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History

Blantyre in Malawi is the seat of a Roman Catholic archdiocese (Latin: Archidioecesis Blantyren(sis)) whose cathedral church is the Our Lady of Wisdom Cathedral, Blantyre. The archdiocese covers 9,166 square miles (23,740 km2), where 1,133,850 Catholics live among a total population of 4,600,000, served by 78 priests and 287 religious. Thomas Luke Msusa SMM currently leads the see.

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