Lousada

Lousada (European Portuguese pronunciation: [loˈzaðɐ] ⁱ ) is a town and municipality of the Porto district, in northern Portugal. The population in 2011 was 47,387,^[1] in an area of 96.08 km2.^[2]

It includes the site of Ancient Magnetum (Portuguese Magneto), in the civil parish Meinedo, which briefly was a short-lived Suebi-Galician bishopric and is now a Latin Catholic titular see.

In 569, as Diocese of Magnetum (Latin) / Magneto (Curiate Italiano and Portuguese) / Magneten(sis) (Latin adjective) was established on territory of the Kingdom of the Suebi in Galicia, split off from the Archdiocese of Braga, its apparent Metropolitan.

In 585, when the kingdom was annexed by the Visigoths, and was turned into the sixth province of the Visigothic Kingdom of Hispania, the bishopric was suppressed, its territory being reassigned to establish the Diocese of Portucale (present see of Porto).

Its only recorded residential bishop was :

• Viator (572–585).

The diocese was nominally restored in 1969 as Latin Catholic Titular bishopric of Magnetum (Latin) / Magneto (Curiate Italian) / Magneten(sis) (Latin adjective).

It has had the following incumbents, of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank with an archiepiscopal (current) exception :

• Angelo Frosi, Xaverian Missionary Fathers (S.X.) (1970年02月02日 – 1978年05月26日) ?Auxiliary? Bishop of Abaetetuba (Brazil) (1970年02月02日 – 1981年09月17日), Bishop of Abaetetuba (1981年09月17日 – death 1995年06月28日)
• Armido Gasparini, Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus (M.C.C.J.) (1979年03月15日 – death 2004年10月21日) as first Apostolic Vicar of Awasa (Ethiopia) (1979年03月15日 – 1993年12月20日); previously last Apostolic Prefect of Awasa (Ethiopia) (1973年02月16日 – 1979年03月15日)
• António Francisco dos Santos (2004年12月21日 – 2006年09月21日) as Auxiliary Bishop of Braga (Portugal) (2004年12月21日 – 2006年09月21日), later Bishop of Aveiro (Portugal) (2006年09月21日 – 2014年02月21日), Bishop of Porto (Portugal) (2014年02月21日 – ...)
• Titular Archbishop Léon Kalenga Badikebele (2008年03月01日 – death 2019年06月12日), papal diplomat : Apostolic Nuncio (ambassador) to Ghana (2008年03月01日 – 2013年02月22日), Apostolic Nuncio to El Salvador (2013年02月22日 – ...) and Apostolic Nuncio to Belize (2013年04月13日 – ...).

The municipality of Lousada is subdivided into the following Freguesias 'civil parishes) :^[3]

This circuit has been used several times for the European autocross championship and it is traditionally the circuit where the Portuguese round of the FIA European Championship for rallycross drivers takes place.

Rui Pedro Teixeira Mendonça went missing on March 4, 1998 in Lousada, Portugal. Rui Pedro was 11 years old and riding his bicycle outside near his home when he disappeared. His case remains unsolved.

• Pedro Moreira (born 1989) is a Portuguese professional footballer with over 280 club caps
• Catarina Ribeiro (born 1990) a Portuguese long distance runner, competed in the woman's marathon at the 2020 Summer Olympics

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