The Roman Catholic Diocese of Lichinga (Latin: Lichingaën(sis)) is a diocese located in the city of Lichinga in the ecclesiastical province of Nampula in Mozambique.

This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these template messages) This article includes a list of references, related reading, or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. (June 2022) You can help expand this article 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 3,068 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 is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Italian Wikipedia article at [[:it:Diocesi di Lichinga]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|it|Diocesi di Lichinga}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Quick Facts Diocese of Lichinga Dioecesis Lichingaensis, Location ...

Diocese of Lichinga Dioecesis Lichingaensis
Location
Country	Mozambique
Metropolitan	Nampula
Statistics
Area	129,362 km2 (49,947 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2004) 839,569 194,485 (23.2%)
Information
Rite	Latin Rite
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Hilário Da Cruz Massinga, O.F.M.

Close

• July 21, 1963: Established as Diocese of Vila Cabral from the Diocese of Nampula
• July 29, 1976: Renamed as Diocese of Lichinga

• Bishops of Vila Cabral (Roman rite)
  • Bishop Eurico Dias Nogueira (1964.07.10 – 1972.02.19), appointed Bishop of Sá da Bandeira, Angola; future Archbishop
  • Bishop Luís Gonzaga Ferreira da Silva, S.J. (1972.11.10 – 1976.07.29 see below)
• Bishops of Lichinga (Roman rite)
  • Bishop Luís Gonzaga Ferreira da Silva, S.J. (see above 1976.07.29 – 2003.01.25)
  • Bishop Hilário Da Cruz Massinga, O.F.M. (2003.04.05 - 2008.01.25), appointed Bishop of Quelimane
  • Bishop Elio Giovanni Greselin, S.C.I. (2008.12.30 - 2015.02.08)
  • Bishop Atanasio Amisse Canira (since 2015.02.08)

• Roman Catholicism in Mozambique

• GCatholic.org
• Catholic Hierarchy

13°19′S 35°14′E

This Mozambique-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e