Diocese of Luena
Lvenan(us)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Luena, Angola
The Diocese of Luena is a Latin Catholic diocese in eastern Angola, erected in 1963 (originally as the Diocese of Luso, renamed Luena in 1979). It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Saurimo and is led by the Uruguayan Salesian bishop Martin Lasarte.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 16 May 1979
- Latin
- Lvenan(us)
- Patron
- Our Lady of the Assumption
- Annuario code
- 001002081
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 138,000
- Extent
- 223,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.6
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
- Martín Alfredo Lasarte Topolansky
- Born
- 25 October 1962
- Birthplace
- Montevideo
- Institute
- SOCIETÀ SALESIANA DI S. GIOVANNI BOSCO (SALESIANI)
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
Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption stands in Luena, 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 Saurimo
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Saurimo.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of SaurimoSaurimo
- Diocese of DundoDundo
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Cúria Diocesana, Rua Saidy Mingas s/n, Lwena [Moxico], Angola
- Telephone
- 945.078.169
- bispolwena@gmail.com
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.