Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Huambo
The Archdiocese of Huambo (Latin: Archidioecesis Huambensis ) is a Roman Catholic Archdiocese in Huambo, Angola. It has been released on September 4, 1940 as Nova Lisboa diocese from the diocese Angole e Congo, it counted 1950 394 629 Catholics (30.7% ) in 37 parishes with 13 diocesan priests, 102 religious priests and 98 nuns. On July 27, 1955, the diocese was Sá from him since taken Bandeira and on 6 June 1970, the Diocese of Benguela.
On August 10, 1975, there were areas establishing the dioceses Diocese Serpa Pinto and Pereira de Eca, so that it now still had a size of 29,500 km ².
As a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Luanda, it was elevated to an archdiocese itself and metropolitans of the dioceses Benguela, Kwito - Bié and Lwena on 3 February 1977.
2002 was one of the current Archdiocese of 1.11959 million Catholics ( 55.6 % ) in 20 parishes with 41 diocesan, 26 religious priests and 158 nuns.