Diocese of Namibe
Namiban(us)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Namibe, Angola
The Diocese of Namibe is a Latin Catholic see in southwestern Angola, erected in 2009 from territory of the Archdiocese of Lubango, to which it is suffragan. Its cathedral, dedicated to Saint Peter, is in Moçâmedes.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 21 March 2009
- Latin
- Namiban(us)
- Patron
- Saint Peter
- Annuario code
- 001002341
The see in figures
- Extent
- 57,091 km²
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
- Dionisio Hisilenapo
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
Sé Catedral de São Pedro stands in Namibe, 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 Lubango
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Lubango.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of LubangoLubango
- Diocese of MenongueMenongue
- Diocese of OndjivaOndjiva
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Angola's Namibe Province is served by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Namibe (Latin: Dioecesis Namibanus), a Latin see suffragan to the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Lubango within that ecclesiastical province.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Rua Estrada da Praia Amélia, C.P. 202, Namibe, Angola
- Telephone
- 264.263.554; fax 264.263.555
- [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].