Metropolitan see Malanje, Angola
Archdiocese of Malanje
Malanien(sis)
Latin Church
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.
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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.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
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.