Jurisdiction: | Diocese |
Dundo | |
Latin: | Dioecesis Dundensis |
Country: | Angola |
Metropolitan: | Saurímo |
Denomination: | Catholic Church |
Sui Iuris Church: | Latin Church |
Rite: | Roman Rite |
Cathedral: | Sé Catedral de Nossa Senhora da Conceiçao |
Bishop: | Estanislau Marques Chindekasse, S.V.D. |
The Diocese of Dundo (la|Dioecesis Dundensis) is a Latin Catholic ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Angola. In 2016, it had 366,700 baptised out of 800,000 inhabitants. It is governed by Bishop Estanislau Marques Chindekasse S.V.D. Its episcopal see is the city of Dundo. The Diocese of Dundo is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Saurímo in Angola.
The episcopal see is the city of Dundo, where the cathedra is found in the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception. The territory is divided into 10 parishes.
Year | Population | Priests | Deacons | Religious | Parishes | |||||||
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Baptised | Total | % | Number | Secular | Regular | Baptised for priesthood | Men | Women | ||||
2001 | 70.000 | 700.000 | 10,0 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 10.000 | 5 | 9 | 1 | ||
2002 | 70.000 | 700.000 | 10,0 | 5 | 5 | 14.000 | 6 | 10 | 1 | |||
2003 | 71.000 | 701.000 | 10,1 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 14.200 | 6 | 13 | 2 | ||
2004 | 71.000 | 701.000 | 10,1 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 11.833 | 6 | 13 | 4 | ||
2006 | 200.000 | 746.000 | 26,8 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 33.333 | 6 | 16 | 5 | ||
2013 | 350.099 | 849.000 | 41,2 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 35.009 | 7 | 17 | 9 | ||
2016 | 366.700 | 800.000 | 45,8 | 16 | 7 | 9 | 22.918 | 13 | 26 | 10 |