Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Maputo
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Maputo is the Metropolitan See for the Ecclesiastical province of Maputo in Mozambique.History
The seat of the archbishop is the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception in Maputo.Bishops
Ordinaries
Prelates of Mozambique
- Maria José a Santo Tomas, OP
- Vasco José a Domina Nostra de Bona Morte Lobo, CRSA
- Joaquim de Nossa Senhora de Nazareth Oliveira e Abreu, OFM Ref, appointed Bishop of São Luís do Maranhão, Brazil
- Bartholomeu de Martyribus Maya, OCD
- Antonio Tomas da Silva Leitão e Castro, appointed Bishop of Angola e Congo, Angola
- Henrique José Reed da Silva, appointed Bishop of São Tomé of Meliapore, India
- Antonio Dias Ferreira, appointed Bishop of Angola e Congo, Angola
- António José de Souza Barroso, appointed Bishop of São Tomé of Meliapore, India
- Sebastião José Pereira
- Antonio José Gomes Cardoso
- António Moutinho, appointed Bishop of Santiago de Cabo Verde, Cape Verde
- Francisco Ferreira da Silva
- Joaquim Rafael Maria d’Assunçâo Pitinho, OFM, appointed Bishop of Santiago de Cabo Verde, Cape Verde
- Teodósio de Gouveia ; future Cardinal
Archbishops of Maputo
Until 1976, the Archbishop of Maputo was titled the Archbishop of Lourenço Marques.
- Teodósio de Gouveia
- Custódio Alvim Pereira
- Alexandre José Maria dos Santos, OFM
- Francisco Chimoio, OFM Cap
Auxiliary Bishops
- António Juliasse Ferreira Sandramo
- João Carlos Hatoa Nunes, appointed Bishop of Chimoio
- Adriano Langa, O.F.M., appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Inhambane
- Custódio Alvim Pereira, appointed Archbishop here
Other priests of this diocese who became bishops
- Ernesto Maguengue, appointed Bishop of Pemba in 2004
- Lucio Andrice Muandula, appointed Bishop of Xai-Xai in 2004
Suffragan dioceses
- Inhambane
- Xai-Xai
