Archdiocese of Maputo
Maputen(sis)
Metropolitan see · Latin Church · Maputo, Mozambique
The Archdiocese of Maputo is the metropolitan Latin Rite see of southern Mozambique, raised to an archdiocese in 1940 as Lourenco Marques and renamed Maputo in 1976. It is led by Archbishop Joao Carlos Hatoa Nunes since 2023, with suffragans Inhambane and Xai-Xai.
The see
- Rank
- Metropolitan see
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 18 September 1976
- Latin
- Maputen(sis)
- Patron
- Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception
- Annuario code
- 001002152
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 1,134,000
- Priests
- 149
- Catholics per priest
- 7,611
- Extent
- 26,358 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 43
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
- Archbishop
- João Carlos Hatoa Nunes
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 Immaculate Conception, Maputo stands in Maputo, 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
This see is the metropolitan of its province.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of InhambaneInhambane
- Diocese of Xai-XaiXai-Xai
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Mozambique's ecclesiastical province of Maputo has as its metropolitan see the Archdiocese of Maputo (Latin: Maputensis).
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 chancery's address, telephone and email, 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
The see's own website · Wikipedia
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].