Diocese of Ondjiva
Ondiivan(us)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Ondjiva, Angola
The Diocese of Ondjiva is a Latin Church diocese in Kunene Province, Angola, originally established in 1975 as the Diocese of Pereira de Eca and renamed in 1979. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Lubango.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 16 May 1979
- Latin
- Ondiivan(us)
- Patron
- Our Lady of Victories
- Annuario code
- 001002455
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 806,760
- Priests
- 33
- Catholics per priest
- 24,447
- Extent
- 83,900 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 9.6
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
- Pio Hipunyati
- Born
- 14 November 1964
- Birthplace
- Ounonge
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
Se Catedral de Nossa Senhora das Vitorias stands in Ondjiva, 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 NamibeNamibe
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
In the Angolan city of Ondjiva sits the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ondjiva (Latin: Dioecesis Ondiivanus), part of the ecclesiastical province of Lubango.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Bispado, Bairro Pioneiro Zeca, C.P. 20, Ondjiva-Kunene, Angola
- [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].