Suffragan diocese Pemba, Mozambique
Diocese of Pemba
Pemban(us)
Latin Church
The Diocese of Pemba is a Latin Church diocese in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique, erected in 1957 as the Diocese of Porto Amelia and renamed Pemba in 1976. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Nampula, led by Bishop Antonio Juliasse Ferreira Sandramo since 2022.
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- Established
- 1957
- Catholics
- 820,720
- Priests
- 35
- Territory
- 82,625 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
- António Juliasse Ferreira Sandramo
- Born
- 20 March 1968
- Birthplace
- Soalpo
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The cathedral
Cathedral of St. Paul stands in Pemba, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
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History
In Mozambique, the city of Pemba gives its name to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pemba (Latin: Pemban(a)), which belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Nampula.
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- Brazilian Catholic Archbishop Honored for Mission in Mozambique’s Embattled Cabo Delgado Province
- Mozambican Catholic Bishop Laid to Rest, Remembered as “man of joy”
- Dom Januário Machaze Nhangumbe dies
- Bishop Januário Machaze Nhangumbe dies at 92
- Bishop Calls for Peaceful Coexistence
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