Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nampula

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nampula is an archbishopric and the metropolitan see for one of the three ecclesiastical provinces in Mozambique in Africa, yet still depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
Its cathedral is the Catedral Metropolitana de Nossa Senhora de Fátima, dedicated to the diocesan patron saint Our Lady of Fatima, in Nampula.

History

The Diocese of Nampula was established on 4 September 1940 by Pope Pius XII's papal bull Sollemnibus Conventionibus, on territory split off from the Territorial Prelature of Mozambique, which was simultaneously promoted and became its metropolitan as the Archdiocese of Lourenço Marques. Nampula lost land on 5 April 1957, to establish the Diocese of Porto Amélia and on 21 July 1963, to establish the Diocese of Vila Cabral
On 4 June 1984 it was promoted to the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Nampula by Pope John Paul II's papal bull, Quo efficacius; he made a papal visit in September 1988.
Nampula lost territory on 11 October 1991, to establish the Diocese of Nacala as its suffragan.

As per 2014, it pastorally served 485,813 Catholics on 51,000 km in 40 parishes and a mission with 75 priests, 270 lay religious and 19 seminarians.

Its suffragan sees were all daughters :

;Suffragan Bishops of Nampula

;Metropolitan Archbishops of Nampula

In 2025 current Archbishop Inácio Saure complained of illegal occupation of Church lands by squatters. In an article in Aid to the Church in Need, local Church sources imply that the squatters have the backing of the Government, and that the occupations are retaliation for the bishops' outspokenness on issues such as the state's crackdown on protesters in the social unrest following the 2024 general election, and the handling of the insurgency in Cabo Delgado.