Catholic Information Service for Africa
(Nairobi)
7 October 2008
Vatican — Pope Father Benedict XVI has appointed Fr José Manuel Imbamba, of the Diocese of Lwena, as Bishop of the Diocese of Dundo.
Until his appointment, Fr Imbamba was Secretary General of the Catholic University of Luanda and professor of Philosophy at the Major Seminary in Luanda.
The bishop-elect was born in the town of Boma, Province of Moxico, in the Diocese of Lwena, on January 7, 1965. Having concluded his philosophical and theological studies at the Major Seminary of Luanda in 1991, he was ordained a priest on December 29 of the same year. He was the first priest from the Diocese of Lwena.
Since his ordination, he has served as follows: Parish priest of the Cathedral of Lwena and Diocesan Delegate for Caritas (1992-1995); Student at the School of Philosophy at the Pontifical University Urbaniana in Rome (1995-1999); Vicar General of Lwena and Director of the Diocesan Secretariat of Pastoral Ministry and professor of Philosophy at the Educational Institute IMNE and of Portuguese at the Health Institute (IMS) (1999-2000). Since 2001, he has been the Secretary General of the Catholic University of Luanda and professor of Philosophy at the Major Seminary in Luanda.
The Diocese of Dundo, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Luanda, was erected in 2001. It covers an area of 106,000 km sq, a population of 1 million inhabitants, of whom 40,000 are Catholic. There are 5 parishes, 2 diocesan priests, 4 religious priests, 16 religious sisters, and 6 major seminarians, according to FIDES.
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