Diocese of Sumbe, Angola 🇦🇴 (original) (raw)

1975.08.10: Established as Diocese of Ngunza (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Luanda and became suffragan of Luanda)
1977.02.03: Renamed as Diocese of Novo Redondo / Neo-Redonden(sis) (Latin)
2006.10.22: Renamed as Diocese of Sumbe / Sumben(sis) (Latin)

Bishop (2023.05.04 – ...):	Bishop Firmino David (62)

Area: 58,698 km²

Population: 710,580 Catholics (35.6% of 1,995,987 total)

Pastoral Centres: 24 parishes, 72 missions

Personnel: 51 priests (diocesan), 102 religious (6 brothers, 96 sisters), 96 seminarians