Archdiocese of Huambo
Huamben(sis)
Metropolitan see · Latin Church · Huambo, Angola
The Archdiocese of Huambo is a Latin Church metropolitan archdiocese in western Angola, founded in 1940 as the Diocese of Nova Lisboa and elevated to an archdiocese in 1977. Its suffragans are Benguela, Ganda, and Kwito-Bié.
The see
- Rank
- Metropolitan see
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 3 February 1977
- Latin
- Huamben(sis)
- Patron
- Our Lady of the Conception
- Annuario code
- 001001617
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 1,100,000
- Population
- 2,019,555
- Catholic share
- 54.5%
- Priests
- 88
- Catholics per priest
- 12,500
- Extent
- 34,270 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 32
of the people living within its bounds
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Archbishop
- Zeferino Zeca Martins
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
Cathedral of Our Lady of the Conception stands in Huambo, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
The province of Huambo
This see is the metropolitan of its province.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of BenguelaBenguela
- Diocese of GandaGanda
- Diocese of Kwito-BiéKwito-Bié
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
In western Angola, the Archdiocese of Huambo (Latin: Archidioecesis Huambensis) stands as a Latin metropolitan archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church. The archbishop's cathedral see is the Marian Cathedral of the Conception of Our Lady (Portuguese: Sé Catedral de Nossa Senhora da Conceição) in Huambo. By 2019 the archdiocese counted roughly 1.1 million Roman Catholics served by 88 diocesan priests.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Arcebispado, Avenida 4 de Abril, C.P. 10, Huambo, Angola
- Telephone
- 923.309.091
- [email protected]
This see keeps no website of its own, so its chancery is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.
What is kept by invitation
The record above is published because it is public: what this see is, when it was erected, who holds its chair, and where it stands among its neighbours.
The working record is not. The clergy of the see, and the hours of Mass, confession and adoration in the parishes within it, are kept for members, and a person reads every request.
Sources
This record is compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. On the method, see the keeping of the record. Whoever finds an error is asked, in charity, to write: [email protected].