Roman Catholic Diocese of Benguela

show This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article in Italian. (February 2011) Click [show] for important translation instructions. View a machine-translated version of the Italian article. Machine translation like DeepL or Google Translate is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 2,229 articles in the main category, and specifying|topic= will aid in categorization. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary Content in this edit is translated from the existing Italian Wikipedia article at [[:it:Diocesi di Benguela]]; see its history for attribution. You should also add the template {{Translated|it|Diocesi di Benguela}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Benguela (Latin: Dioecesis Benguelensis) is a diocese located in the city of Benguela in the Ecclesiastical province of Huambo in Angola.

History[]

• June 6, 1970: Established as Diocese of Benguela from the Diocese of Nova Lisboa

Special churches[]

The Cathedral of the diocese is Sé Catedral de Nossa Senhora de Fátima (Cathedral Church of Our Lady of Fatima) in Benguela.

Bishops[]

Bishops of Benguela[]

• Armando Amaral dos Santos (6 June 1970 – 14 October 1973)
• Oscar Lino Lopes Fernandes Braga (20 November 1974 – 18 February 2008)
• Eugenio Dal Corso, PSDP (18 February 2008 – 26 March 2018),^[1] elevated to Cardinal in 2019
• , SVD (26 March 2018^[1] – present)

Other priests of this diocese who became bishops[]

• , appointed Bishop of Menongue in 2005
• , appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Uije in 2006

See also[]

• Roman Catholicism in Angola

References[]

External links[]

• GCatholic.org

Coordinates: 12°35′09″S 13°24′09″E / 12.5858°S 13.4025°E / -12.5858; 13.4025