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Metropolitan see Nampula, Mozambique

Archdiocese of Nampula

Nampulen(sis)

The Archdiocese of Nampula is the metropolitan see of the Latin Catholic Church in northeastern Mozambique, erected as a diocese in 1940 and elevated to a metropolitan archdiocese in 1984. Its cathedral is dedicated to Our Lady of Fatima.

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

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Established
1940
Catholics
536,700
Priests
97
Territory
51,000 km²

Parishes and churches

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

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The bishop

Archbishop
Inácio Saure
Born
2 March 1960
Birthplace
Balama
Institute
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The cathedral

Catedral Metropolitana de Nossa Senhora de Fátima stands in Nampula, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

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History

One of the three ecclesiastical provinces of Mozambique, in (south)eastern Africa, has its metropolitan see in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nampula (Latin: Nampulen(sis)), an archbishopric that nonetheless still depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. Its cathedral, the Catedral Metropolitana de Nossa Senhora de Fátima in Nampula, is dedicated to the diocesan patron saint, Our Lady of Fatima.

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