Lousada () is a town and municipality of the
Porto district, in northern
Portugal. The population in 2011 was 47,387, in an area of 96.08 km².
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.
Ecclesiastical history
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
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, 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).
Titular see
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.) (1970.02.02 – 1978.05.26) ?Auxiliary? Bishop of
Abaetetuba
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(Brazil) (1970.02.02 – 1981.09.17), Bishop of Abaetetuba (1981.09.17 – death 1995.06.28)
* Armido Gasparini,
Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus (M.C.C.J.) (1979.03.15 – death 2004.10.21) as first
Apostolic Vicar of
Awasa (Ethiopia) (1979.03.15 – 1993.12.20); previously last Apostolic Prefect of
Awasa (Ethiopia) (1973.02.16 – 1979.03.15)
* António Francisco dos Santos (2004.12.21 – 2006.09.21) as Auxiliary Bishop of Braga (Portugal) (2004.12.21 – 2006.0