Diocese of Uíje
Uiien(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Uíje, Angola
The Diocese of Uíje is a Latin Church diocese in northern Angola, erected in 1967 as the Diocese of Carmona and São Salvador and renamed in 1979, suffragan to the Archdiocese of Malanje. Its bishop is Joaquim Nhanganga Tyombe, appointed in 2021.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 16 May 1979
- Latin
- Uiien(sis)
- Patron
- Inmaculada Concepción
- Annuario code
- 001000039
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 1,346,201
- Priests
- 41
- Catholics per priest
- 32,834
- Extent
- 64,022 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 21
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
- Joaquim Nhanganga Tyombe
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
Sé Catedral de Nossa Senhora da Conceição, Uíje stands in Uíje, 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 NdalatandoNdalatando
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Cúria Diocesana, Rue Pioneiro do Congo, C.P. 239, Uíje, Angola
- Telephone
- 922.955.099
- [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].