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Metropolitan see Malanje, Angola

Archdiocese of Malanje

Malanien(sis)

The Archdiocese of Malanje is a metropolitan Latin Catholic see in northern Angola, erected as a diocese in 1957 and elevated to an archdiocese in 2011. It heads its own ecclesiastical province with the suffragan dioceses of Ndalatando and Uije.

On the map

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

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Established
1957
Catholics
658,190
Priests
13
Territory
97,602 km²

Parishes and churches

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

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The bishop

Archbishop
Luzizila Kiala
Born
19 November 1963
Birthplace
Damba

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The cathedral

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

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History

Seated in the Angolan city of Malanje, this see (Latin: Archidioecesis Malaniensis) was raised to the rank of archdiocese in 2011. Before that elevation it belonged to the ecclesiastical province of Luanda, as did the Diocese of Uíje and the Diocese of Ndalatando, the two sees now placed under its oversight.