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Diocese of Ndalatando, Angola 🇦🇴

Celebrations

History

  • 1990.03.26: Established as Diocese of Ndalatando / N’dalatando / Ndalatanden(sis) (Latin) (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Luanda and became suffragan of Luanda)
  • 2011.04.12: Became suffragan of Malanje

Present Prelates

Ordinaries

Bishops of Ndalatando (Roman Rite)

Bishop Almeida Kanda (65)Bishop Almeida Kanda (65)
(2005.07.23 – ...)

Bishop of Ndalatando (Angola)

Unitas

Born:1959.05.10 (Cangola, Angola)
Ordained Priest:1986.07.06
Consecrated Bishop:2005.10.23

Priest of Uíje (Angola) (1986.07.06 – 2005.07.23)

Bishop of Ndalatando (Angola) (2005.07.23 – ...)

Bishop Pedro Luís Guido Scarpa, O.F.M. Cap.
(1990.03.26 – 2005.07.23)

Deus e bom

Born:1925.02.07 (Italy)
Ordained Priest:1950.03.26
Consecrated Bishop:1983.10.16
Died:2018.10.20 († 93)

Titular Bishop of Korčula (1983.07.22 – 1990.03.26)

Auxiliary Bishop of Luanda (Angola) (1983.07.22 – 1990.03.26)

Bishop of Ndalatando (Angola) (1990.03.26 – 2005.07.23)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 19,357 km²

Population: 265,000 Catholics (48.3% of 548,485 total)

Pastoral Centres: 13 parishes, 109 missions

Personnel: 40 priests (21 diocesan, 19 religious), 90 religious (28 brothers, 62 sisters), 17 seminarians