Archdiocese of Malanje
Malanien(sis)
Metropolitan see · Latin Church · Malanje, Angola
The Archdiocese of Malanje is a metropolitan Latin Catholic see in northern Angola, erected as a diocese in 1957 and elevated to an archdiocese in 2011. It heads its own ecclesiastical province with the suffragan dioceses of Ndalatando and Uije.
The see
- Rank
- Metropolitan see
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 12 April 2011
- Latin
- Malanien(sis)
- Patron
- Our Lady of the Assumption
- Annuario code
- 001002120
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 658,190
- Population
- 1,141,500
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 57.7%
- Priests
- 13
- Catholics per priest
- 50,630
- Extent
- 97,602 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 6.7
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
- Archbishop
- Luzizila Kiala
- Born
- 19 November 1963
- Birthplace
- Damba
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 Malanje, 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
This see is the metropolitan of its province.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of NdalatandoNdalatando
- Diocese of UíjeUíje
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Seated in the Angolan city of Malanje, this see (Latin: Archidioecesis Malaniensis) was raised to the rank of archdiocese in 2011. Before that elevation it belonged to the ecclesiastical province of Luanda, as did the Diocese of Uíje and the Diocese of Ndalatando, the two sees now placed under its oversight.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Bispado, Rua Afonso de Alburquerque, Malanje, Angola
- Telephone
- 924.422.813
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.