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Diocese of Santiago de Cabo Verde

Dioecesis Sancti Iacobi Capitis Viridis



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Bishop(s)

  • Arlindo Gomes Furtado, Cardinal, Bishop

General Information

  • Type of Jurisdiction: Diocese
  • Erected: 31 January 1533
  • Immediately Subject to the Holy See
  • Depends on: Dicastery for Evangelization
  • Rite: Latin (or Roman)
  • Country: Cape Verde
  • Square Kilometers: 1,832 (707 Square Miles)
  • Mailing Address: C.P. 46, Av. Amilcar Cabral, Largo 5 de Outubro, Praia 7600, Cabo Verde
  • Telephone: 261.11.19
  • Fax: 261.21.26

Past and Present Ordinaries



Historical Summary

DateEventFromTo
31 January 1533ErectedDiocese of Funchal Diocese of Goa (erected)
Diocese of Santiago de Cabo Verde (erected)
4 September 1940Territory LostDiocese of Santiago de Cabo Verde (Jesuit territory) Mission "Sui Iuris" of Guinea Portoghese (erected)
9 January 1978Metropolitan ChangedDiocese of Santiago de Cabo Verde (from Lisboa)
9 December 2003Territory LostDiocese of Santiago de Cabo Verde (Ilhas de Barlavento: S. Antão, S. Vicente, Santa Luzia, S. Nicolau, Boavista, and Sal) Diocese of Mindelo (erected)

Statistics

YearCatholicsTotal PopulationPercent CatholicDiocesan PriestsReligious PriestsTotal PriestsCatholics Per PriestPermanent DeaconsMale ReligiousFemale ReligiousParishesSource
1950168,109176,68795.1%718256,72415930ap1951
1970250,961256,96997.7%1234465,455362830ap1971
1980294,360300,55097.9%1230427,008363030ap1981
1990344,921355,89896.9%1235477,3384010230ap1991
1999432,424451,90995.7%1435498,8245511131ap2000
2000443,325475,85093.2%1335489,2356210831ap2001
2001408,813434,26394.1%1235478,6984912331ap2002
2002452,320487,57592.8%1335489,4234112331ap2003
2003410,079443,62592.4%1337508,2015312731ap2004
2004292,488318,31791.9%1220329,1402710519ap2005
2010311,922365,00085.5%1222349,174237621ap2011
2014389,000408,00095.3%1921409,725317123ap2015
2017415,900435,70095.5%18234110,14314210424ap2018
2020431,700451,40095.6%2025459,59314510524ap2021
2022442,000463,00095.5%2921508,840144010826ap2023

Note: Any changes in boundaries over time are not indicated in the above table.


Affiliated Bishops, Living

Affiliated Bishops, Deceased



Source(s)

  • Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 4, Page 206
  • Series Episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Volume 1, Page 472, to Page 473
  • Acta Apostolicae Sedis, Volume 70, Page 266

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