Archbishop Edmundo Ponziano Valenzuela Mellid SDB is a Roman Catholic missionary currently serving in Paraguay as the sixth Metropolitan Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Asunción. On February 13, 2006, he was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI as Apostolic Vicar to Chaco Paraguayo, an area with a population of 18,000 but only 5 ordained priests. As a result of this appointment, he was consecrated to the episcopate 22 April 2006. Prior to this appointment, Valenzuela served as a high-profile missionary in Angola. Valenzuela was ordained a priest of the Salesians of Don Bosco in 1977.
The Catholic Church in Angola is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome.
The Archdiocese of Huambo is a Latin Metropolitan archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church in western Angola.
The Archdiocese of Lubango is the Metropolitan See for the ecclesiastical province of Lubango in Angola. The cathedral of the archdiocese is the Cathedral of St. Joseph, Lubango.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Libreville is the Metropolitan See of the Latin Ecclesiastical province covering all Gabon.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Lwena is a diocese located in the city of Lwena in the ecclesiastical province of Saurímo in Angola.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Malanje is an archdiocese located in Malanje, Angola. Until its elevation to an archdiocese in 2011, it belonged to the ecclesiastical province of Luanda, like the two dioceses over which it has now oversight: the Diocese of Uíje and the Diocese of Ndalatando.
The Diocese of Bambari is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or diocese of the Catholic Church in the Central African Republic. The diocese is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Bangui, which covers the Central African Republic, but depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of São Tomé and Príncipe is a diocese, immediately subject to the Holy See, with its seat in the city of São Tomé in São Tomé and Príncipe. It covers the territory of the Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe. As of 2015, 112,000 or 57.4% of the inhabitants of São Tomé and Príncipe were Catholic.
Zacarias Kamwenho is an Angolan emeritus Archbishop and peace activist. He had an important role in the peace process that led to the end of the Angolan Civil War in 2002.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of São Luís do Maranhão is a Latin archdiocese in Brazil.
The Catholic Church in São Tomé and Príncipe is part of the Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome and forms the largest religion in the country. A majority of the residents São Tomé and Príncipe adhere to Catholicism.
Novatus Rugambwa is a Tanzanian prelate of the Catholic Church and diplomat of the Holy See.
The Episcopal Conference of Angola and São Tomé is the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Angola and São Tomé and Principe. It has its headquarters in Luanda. In its pastoral letters, CEAST calls repeatedly for dialogue and social justice.
Ismael Perdomo Borrero was a Colombian Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Archbishop of Bogotá from 1928 until his death. Borrero studied in both Rome and Paris before returning to his homeland to serve as a bishop not long after he was ordained as a priest; he served in the national episcopal conference and was in 1923 made the coadjutor for the Bogotá archdiocese. But the national government frowned upon his succession to the archbishopric in 1928 and more so after his involvement in the 1930 presidential election seeing his favored candidate lose. Borrero was known for his energetic approach to fostering social and charitable initiatives and towards the end of his tenure sought to establish new parishes and reorganize their structure.
Eugenio Dal Corso is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who led two dioceses in Angola, as Coadjutor and Bishop of Saurimo from 1996 to 2008 and as Bishop of Benguela from 2008 to 2018. He is a professed member of the Poor Servants of Divine Providence and worked as a missionary in Argentina and Angola from 1975 to 1996.
Paulo Cezar Costa is a Brazilian prelate of the Catholic Church who has been Metropolitan Archbishop of Brasilia since December 2020. He has been a bishop since 2010 and served as Bishop of São Carlos from 2016 to 2020.
Belmiro Cuica Chissengueti C.S.Sp. is an Angolan prelate of the Catholic Church who has been bishop of Cabinda since 2018. He serves as the spokesperson for Angolan bishops on political and social affairs, and for his social media presence has been called the bishop of the diocese of Facebook.
