The
mission sui iuris of
Cunene was established in 1881, on territory split off from the then
Apostolic Prefecture of Cimbebasia (the remainder of which was on 1 August 1892 renamed as
Apostolic Prefecture of Upper Cimbebasia in Portuguese Angola, later Cubango in Angola, then suppressed in 1940). It was exempt, i.e. not part of any
ecclesiastical province. No
ecclesiastical superiors seem to be recorded. It was suppressed on 4 September 1940, and its territory merged into the newly erected
Roman Catholic Diocese of Nova Lisboa, the nucleus of the present Metropolitan
Archdiocese of Huambo. ==References==