LWANGWA, VICARIATE APOSTOLIC of. - In the north-eastern part of Northern Rhodesia, entrusted to the Society of the Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers). It derives from the apostolic vicariates of Bangueolo and Nyassa, from which on 23 May 1933 a portion of territory was detached and erected as a sui iuris mission under the name of L., which on 1 July 1927, with modified boundaries, was raised to an apostolic vicariate and on 8 March 1951 changed its name to that of Abercorn.
It has an area of 107,653 sq. km., with 197,891 inhabitants, of whom 39,153 are Catholics. It has 9 parishes, served by 1 diocesan priest and 28 religious, assisted by 1 women’s religious community; 148 schools (of which 1 teacher-training school) and 10 charitable and welfare institutions, with several Catholic Action associations (Ann. Pont., 1951, p. 679).
LWOW, DIOCESE of. V. LEOPOLI, DIOCESI di.