Diocese of Kwito-Bié
Kvitobien(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Kwito-Bié, Angola
The Diocese of Kwito-Bié is a Latin rite see in Bié Province, Angola, established on 4 September 1940 as the Diocese of Silva Porto and renamed in 1979. It is suffragan to the Archdiocese of Huambo and has been led by Bishop Vicente Sanombo since 2024.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 16 May 1979
- Latin
- Kvitobien(sis)
- Patron
- Saint Lawrence
- Annuario code
- 001001924
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 900,000
- Population
- 1,731,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 52.0%
- Priests
- 53
- Catholics per priest
- 16,981
- Extent
- 71,000 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
- Vicente Sanombo
- Born
- 23 October 1964
- Birthplace
- Cangenge-Bailundo
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 São Lourenço stands in Kwito-Bié, 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 Huambo
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Huambo.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of HuamboHuambo
- Diocese of BenguelaBenguela
- Diocese of GandaGanda
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Cúria Diocesana, C.P. 16, Kwito-Bié, Angola
- Telephone
- 923.372.570
This see keeps no website of its own, so the address of its diocesan offices 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.
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Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.