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Angola
Jornal Ação Missionária 993 - Outubro
Família Espiritana Missão em Angola
September 29, 2026
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Angola: Enlarged Provincial Council
The Spiritans arrived in Angola in 1866 and the Province was founded in 1977, two years after the country's independence.  The Province, despite the cruel and long civil war that…
July 20, 2026
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Visit of Pope Leo XIV to Angola, Pilgrim of Peace and Reconciliation
SPIRITAN NEWSFLASH  No. 92/2026 As a Spiritan, it was a joy to help coordinate the Pope’s visit to Angola. Among those who greeted him at the conclusion of the meeting…
May 2, 2026
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Jornal Ação Missionária 989 - Maio 2026
Papa Leão em África pela paz e reconciliação As principais intervenções do Papa Leão XIV na sua visita a quatro países africanos.
May 1, 2026
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Apostolic Journey of the Holy Father to Algeria, Cameroon, Angola and Equatorial...
Welcoming the invitations of the respective Heads of State and Ecclesiastical Authorities, His Holiness Pope Leo XIV will make an Apostolic Journey to Algeria, Cameroon, Angola and Equatorial Guinea from…
February 25, 2026
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Jornal Ação Missionária 985. Janeiro 2026
O longe e o perto da Missão evangelizadora O grupo Missão Cor Unum (na foto) e o grupo Ponte, iniciaram as suas formações de preparação para um mês de missão…
January 1, 2026
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Angola
P. Benedito Roberto is appointed Bishop of Sumbe, the first Angolan bishop of the Congregation.
December 30, 1995
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Angola
P. Abilio Guerra (47 years in Angola) of Portugal is killed in mysterious circumstances at Luanda; he is taken from the entrance of the Provincialate and found dead on the…
April 24, 1992
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Angola
Fr. Nicolaas Ligthart of the Dutch province is killed in an ambush between Huambo and Chinguar. He was aged 46.
February 24, 1987
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Angola
Death at Malanje of Jean-Etienne Wozniak (France) aged 29, who had been in Angola for only one year. He and John Kingston (Ireland) ran into an ambush as they approached…
May 26, 1985
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Angola
News arrives of the brutal assassination of P. José da Silva Pereira, aged 72, a Portuguese Spiritan who has been in southern Angola for 43 years.
April 5, 1978
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Angola
Foundation of the Provincial house for the Province of Angola. P. Bernardo Bongo is the Provincial.
July 20, 1977
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Angola
The Angolan Province is created.
June 29, 1977
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Angola
Foundation of the Province of Angola. The first Provincial is P. Bernardo Bongo.
June 20, 1977
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Angola
Fr. Adelio Ribeiro from Portugal was kidnapped by Unita from the mission of Bela Vista in the diocese of Huambo and subsequently assassinated.
August 10, 1976
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Angola
Death of Fr. Ties Thijssen (Holland) and Br. Alfonso Rodriques (Portugal), killed by a government soldier at the mission of Caconda.
March 16, 1976
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Spain
The first team of Spanish Spiritans leaves from Lisbon for the mission of Balombo in the Diocese of Benguela, Angola. A second team goes to the mission of Camacupa in…
April 30, 1972
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Angola
The Spiritans leave Ambriz definitively and establish themselves in Luanda.
October 1, 1969
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Portugal
P. Moisés Alves de Pinho is named Bishop of Angola and Congo and is ordained on the 17.07.1932 at Viana do Castelo. Prior to this he was Provincial for 13…
April 7, 1932
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Portugal
The death in Paris of P. José Maria Antunes. Born in Santarém in 1856, he was one of the first students of the Congo seminary at Santarém. He founded the…
December 16, 1928
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Angola
The Portuguese government allows brothers to enter the country, on condition that they do not work in groups.
March 18, 1922
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Congo
The Berlin Conference divides the region of the prefecture of the Congo between Portugal (Angola and the enclave of Cabinda), King Leopold II (the independent State of the Congo) and…
January 3, 1885
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Congo
Re-opening of the catholic mission of St. Antoine de Soyo (Mpinda), by Pères Carrie, Augouard and Faxel. In 1886, it is transferred to Nemlao.
October 2, 1881
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Ireland
Bro Onuphre Cooney set out from Ireland with Fr Charles Duparquet for the mission of Cimbabasie (Angola), later to be followed by Frs. John Hogan, Gerald Griffin and Joseph Lynch.
March 4, 1878
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Angola
The General Council decides to withdraw all Spiritans from Angola, leaving it to the Propaganda Fide to decide whether this should be a definitive or temporary decision. In the event,…
August 11, 1870
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Angola
The death of Père Fulgence Lapeyre at the age of 28. He is the third victim of the mission of Angola : Père Espitalié and Mr. Billon have already died.
January 19, 1870
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Angola
Fr. Antoine Espitallié dies in hospital in Luanda, the first Spiritan to die in Angola. He is buried in the cemetery at Cruzes, Luanda.
March 29, 1868
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Angola
Spiritan missionaries celebrate Mass for the first time on Angolan soil (at Ambriz).
March 15, 1866
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Angola
The first three Spiritans disembark at the port of Ambriz from the steamer "Lincolnshire": Frs. Joseph Marie Poussot (Vice-Prefect), Antoine Espitallié and Etienne Billon (an Agregé).
March 14, 1866
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Angola
Propaganda Fide confides the Prefecture of the Congo (Angola) to the Spiritans; it was first set up in 1640 and run by the Capuchins. On 09.09.1873, P. Hippolyte Carrie and…
September 9, 1865
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