Diocese of Inhambane
Inhambanian(us)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Inhambane, Mozambique
The Diocese of Inhambane is a Latin Church diocese in Mozambique, erected in 1962 and suffragan to the Archdiocese of Maputo. Bishop Ernesto Maguengue has led the diocese since 2022.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 3 August 1962
- Latin
- Inhambanian(us)
- Patron
- Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception
- Annuario code
- 001001664
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 324,000
- Population
- 1,762,604
- Catholic share
- 18.4%
- Priests
- 50
- Catholics per priest
- 6,480
- Extent
- 68,476 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 4.7
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
- Bishop
- Ernesto Maguengue
- Born
- 2 August 1964
- Birthplace
- Chidenguele
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
Catedral de Nossa Senhora da Conceicao stands in Inhambane, 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 Maputo
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Maputo.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of MaputoMaputo
- Diocese of Xai-XaiXai-Xai
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Centered on the Mozambican city of Inhambane, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Inhambane (Latin: Inhambanian(us)) belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Maputo.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Bispado, Caixa Postal 178, Rua de Mapai s/n, 20100 Inhambane, Moçambique
- Telephone
- 293.20.942
- [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].