Diocese of

Uíje

Angola

Continent: Southern Africa

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Area: 64,022 km²

Population: 1,011,785 Catholics (51.3% of 1,970,970 total) (2017)

Statistics: 23 parishes, 5 missions, 68 priests (42 diocesan, 26 religious), 117 lay religious (29 brothers, 88 sisters), 59 seminarians (2017)

Ecclesiastical Province: Malanje

Depends on: Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples

Patron Saint: Nossa Senhora da Conceição (December 8)

History

1967.03.14: Established as Diocese of Carmona e São Salvador (Português) / Carmonen(sis)–Soterpolitan(us) (Latin) (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Luanda)
1979.05.16: Renamed as Diocese of Uíje / Uiien(sis) (Latin)
1984.11.07: Lost territory to establish Diocese of Mbanza Congo

Special Churches

Cathedral: Sé Catedral de Nossa Senhora da Conceição, Uíge, Uíge

Present Prelates

Bishop:

vacant

Ordinaries

Bishops of Uíje (Roman Rite)

Bishop Emílio Sumbelelo (56)
(2008.02.02 – 2019.02.11)

Bishop of Viana (Angola)

Born:	1964.03.05 (Angola)
Ordained Priest:	1991.08.04
Consecrated Bishop:	2007.02.25

Coadjutor Bishop of Uíje (Angola) (2006.12.01 – 2008.02.02)

Bishop of Uíje (Angola) (2008.02.02 – 2019.02.11)

Bishop of Viana (Angola) (2019.02.11 – ...)

Bishop José Francisco Moreira dos Santos, O.F.M. Cap. (91)
(1979.05.16 – 2008.02.02)

Bishop emeritus of Uíje (Angola)

Born:	1928.10.12 (Portugal)
Ordained Priest:	1952.01.20
Consecrated Bishop:	1967.04.30

Bishop of Carmona e São Salvador (Angola) (1967.03.14 – 1979.05.16)

Bishop of Uíje (Angola) (1979.05.16 – 2008.02.02)

Bishops of Carmona e São Salvador (Roman Rite)

Bishop José Francisco Moreira dos Santos, O.F.M. Cap. (91)
(1967.03.14 – 1979.05.16)

(see above)

Former Prelates

Coadjutor Bishop: Bishop Emílio Sumbelelo (56) (2006.12.01 – 2008.02.02)

as of 2020.06.16

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