Suffragan diocese Namibe, Angola
Diocese of Namibe
Namiban(us)
Latin Church
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.
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- Established
- 2009
- Catholics
- 444,000
- Priests
- 29
- Territory
- 57,091 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
- Bishop
- Dionisio Hisilenapo
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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.
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.
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