Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique, is a country located in southeast Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west, and Eswatini and South Africa to the southwest. The sovereign state is separated from the Comoros, Mayotte and Madagascar by the Mozambique Channel to the east. The capital and largest city is Maputo.
Portuguese Mozambique or Portuguese East Africa were the common terms by which Mozambique was designated during the period in which it was a Portuguese colony. Portuguese Mozambique originally constituted a string of Portuguese possessions along the south-east African coast, and later became a unified colony, which now forms the Republic of Mozambique.
Alexandre José Maria dos Santos was a Mozambican Roman Catholic cardinal. He was the first native cardinal of Mozambique.
Christianity is the largest religion in Mozambique, with 62% of the population in 2023. More than half of these are evangelical and Pentecostal Christians.
The United Baptist Church of Mozambique is a Baptist Christian denomination in Mozambique. The headquarters is in Maputo.
Mozambique is a Christian majority country, with Islam being a minority faith practiced by around 17.5% of the population as of 2020. The faith was introduced by merchants visiting the Swahili coast, as the region was part of the trade network that spanned the Indian Ocean. This later led to the formation of several officially Muslim political entities in the region.
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Electricidade de Moçambique, E.P. is a state-owned energy company of Mozambique, which deals with the generation, transmission, distribution and sale of electricity. EDM was incorporated in 1995 after the privatization of the state-managed enterprise Electricidade de Moçambique, Empresa Estatal (EDM-E.E.), which had been set up in 1977, two years after the independence of Mozambique, by the new government of the People's Republic of Mozambique led by the FRELIMO party. In 1977, EDM emerged from the amalgamation of twenty-five separate generation and distribution units geographically dispersed across Mozambique.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Maputo is the Metropolitan See for the ecclesiastical province of Maputo in Mozambique.
The Archdiocese of Évora is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in Portugal with Évora Cathedral as its see. It has as suffragans the diocese of Beja and diocese of Faro. The current archbishop of Évora is José Francisco Sanches Alves.
Christianity is the largest religion in Mozambique, with substantial minorities of the adherents of traditional faiths and Islam.
Televisão de Moçambique is the national public broadcaster of Mozambique. It is headquartered in Maputo, the country's capital.
The Episcopal Conference of Mozambique is the episcopal conference of the Catholic Church in Mozambique. The CEM is a member of the Inter-Regional Meeting of Bishops of Southern Africa (IMBISA) and Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM).
Sebastião Soares de Resende was a Portuguese Catholic bishop in Africa at the head of the diocese of Beira in Mozambique. He was the most liberal of the first generation of bishops after the 1940 Concordat. He is famous for having openly criticised, in the name of the social doctrine of the church, both forced labour and forced cultivation in Mozambique. In the 1960s he leaned towards the idea that Mozambique should become independent.
Raúl Alves Calane da Silva was a Mozambican writer, journalist, and poet.
Luiz Fernando Lisboa C.P. is a Brazilian Catholic prelate who has served as Archbishop of Cachoeiro de Itapemirim since 2021. He was previously Bishop of Pemba in Mozambique from 2013 to 2021.
The Anglican Church of Mozambique and Angola [Igreja Anglicana de Moçambique e Angola (IAMA)] is the 42nd ecclesiastical province of the world-wide Anglican Communion. Established in 2021, is the newest province to have been erected. Previously the dioceses which constitute this new province were parts of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa. The new province adopted its constitution and canons at a special synod, and was formally inaugurated on 24 September 2021, in an online teleconference including Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Josiah Idowu-Fearon, Secretary-General of the Anglican Consultative Council.
Lucio Andrice Muandula is a Mozambican prelate of the Catholic Church who has been bishop of Xai-Xai since 2004. He was president of the Episcopal Conference of Mozambique from 2009 to 2015 and from 2018 to 2021 and president of the Inter-Regional Meeting of the Bishops of Southern Africa (IMBISA) from 2019 to 2022. He has been second vice president of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) since 2019.
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