LUANDA, Diocese of. - City and archdiocese in Angola. From the 15th century, that is, from the period of its discovery, the territories of Congo and Angola were the object of missionary apostolate and belonged successively to the jurisdiction of the Order of Christ until 1514 and to that of the bishopric of Funchal until 1596, when Clement VIII erected the diocese of Angola and Congo, without precise limits and as a suffragan of the archbishopric of Lisbon. D. Miguel Rangel was its first prelate and the episcopal see remained at S. Salvadore do Congo until 1676; afterward it was definitively established at L.
In 1940, following the missionary agreement between the Holy See and the Portuguese government, on Sept. 4, with the bull Solenibus conventionibus, L. was erected as an archdiocese.
Over an area of 530,000 sq km, it has 1,500,000 inhabitants, of whom 223,000 are Catholics, distributed in 51 parishes served by 26 diocesan priests and 62 regulars, with 20 male and 33 female religious communities, a flourishing seminary and 14 charitable institutions. It publishes the newspaper: O apostolado. It has three suffragans: Nuova Lisbona, S. Tommaso, Silva Port (Annuario Pontif., 1951, p. 251).
Bibliography4 worksF. De Almeida, Hist. da Igreja em Portugal, IV, II, Coimbra 1926, p. 109; M. Alves da Cunha, Missões católicas de Angola, Luanda 1935, pp. 3
BIBL.: F. De Almeida, Hist. da Igreja em Portugal, IV, II, Coimbra 1926, p. 109; M. Alves da Cunha, Missões católicas de Angola, Luanda 1935, pp. 3-11; Concordata e Acordo Missionário de 7 de maio de 1940, Lisbona 1943, p. 35; anon., Portugal em Africa, V, Lisbona 1948, pp. 65-78.
Alexandre, do Nascimento. “Loanda, diocesi di.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VII, col. 1455. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951. https://azioneromana.com/article/loanda-diocesi-di.
MLA
Alexandre, do Nascimento. “Loanda, diocesi di.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VII, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951, col. 1455. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/loanda-diocesi-di.
BibTeX
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author = {Alexandre, do Nascimento},
title = {Loanda, diocesi di},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {VII},
pages = {1455},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1951},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/loanda-diocesi-di}
}
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