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Roman Catholic Diocese of Nampula


The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nampula (Latin: Nampulen(sis)) is an archbishopric and the Metropolitan See for one of the three Ecclesiastical provinces in Mozambique in (south)eastern Africa, yet still depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.

Its cathedral archiepiscopal see is the Catedral Metropolitana de Nossa Senhora de Fátima, dedicated to the diocesan patron saint Our Lady of Fatima, in Nampula.

As per 2014, it pastorally served 485,813 Catholics (13.7% of 3,547,000 total) on 51,000 km² in 40 parishes and a mission with 75 priests (36 diocesan, 39 religious), 270 lay religious (96 brothers, 174 sisters) and 19 seminarians.

Its Suffragan sees are all daughters :

(all Roman rite)

Coordinates: 15°07′S 39°16′E / 15.117°S 39.267°E / -15.117; 39.267


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