Diocese of Luena
Lvenan(us)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Luena, Angola
The Diocese of Luena is a Latin Catholic diocese in eastern Angola, erected in 1963 (originally as the Diocese of Luso, renamed Luena in 1979). It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Saurimo and is led by the Uruguayan Salesian bishop Martin Lasarte.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 16 May 1979
- Latin
- Lvenan(us)
- Patron
- Our Lady of the Assumption
- Annuario code
- 001002081
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 138,000
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
- Martín Alfredo Lasarte Topolansky
- Born
- 25 October 1962
- Birthplace
- Montevideo
- Institute
- SOCIETÀ SALESIANA DI S. GIOVANNI BOSCO (SALESIANI)
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 Assumption stands in Luena, 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 Saurimo
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Saurimo.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of SaurimoSaurimo
- Diocese of DundoDundo
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Cúria Diocesana, Rua Saidy Mingas s/n, Lwena [Moxico], Angola
- Telephone
- 945.078.169
- [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].