Diocese of Ndalatando
Ndalatanden(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Ndalatando, Angola
The Diocese of Ndalatando is a Latin Rite diocese in Cuanza Norte, Angola, established in 1990 from the Archdiocese of Luanda. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Malanje and has been led by Bishop Almeida Kanda since 2005.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 26 March 1990
- Latin
- Ndalatanden(sis)
- Patron
- Saint John the Baptist
- Annuario code
- 001002366
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 249,550
- Priests
- 18
- Catholics per priest
- 13,864
- Extent
- 19,357 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 13
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
- Almeida Kanda
- Born
- 10 May 1959
- Birthplace
- Cangola
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
Catedral de São João Baptista stands in Ndalatando, 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 Malanje
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Malanje.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of MalanjeMalanje
- Diocese of UíjeUíje
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
In Angola's ecclesiastical province of Malanje, the city of Ndalatando gives its name to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ndalatando (Latin: Dioecesis Ndalatandensis).
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Bispado, Rua da Missão, C.P. 23, Ndalatando, Kwanza Norte, Angola
- Telephone
- 235.240.679
- [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].