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Metropolitan see Huambo, Angola

Archdiocese of Huambo

Huamben(sis)

Latin Church

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.

On the map

Esri
Huambo, Angola, drawn to the town rather than to the door: the register holds no verified address for its cathedral.

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Established
1940
Catholics
1,100,000
Priests
88
Territory
34,270 km²

Parishes and churches

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

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The bishop

Archbishop
Zeferino Zeca Martins

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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.

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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.

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