António Francisco Jaca

António Francisco Jaca S.V.D. (born 3 November 1963) is an Angolan prelate of the Catholic Church who is the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Benguela in Angola since 26 March 2018. Before then, from 6 June 2007, until 26 March 2018, he was Bishop of the Diocese of Caxito, Angola. He was appointed bishop by Pope Benedict XVI on 6 June 2007. He was consecrated bishop in Luanda on 22 July 2007. He was installed at Caxito on 14 October 2007. On 26 March 2018 Pope Francis transferred him to Benguela and appointed him as the local ordinary there. He was installed at Benguela on 9 June 2018. He concurrently served as apostolic administrator of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Caxito from 3 May 2018 until 16 August 2020.

Early life and education António Francisco Jaca was born on 3 November 1963 at Quessua, Malanje Province, Archdiocese of Malanje in northcentral Angola. He attended elementary and secondary schools in his home area. He studied at the "Propaedeutic Seminary of Malanje". He studied philosophy from 1981 until 1984, at the Luanda Archdiocecan Major Seminary in Luanda. In 1985, he entered the Institute of the Word Rabbi, in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. He completed his studies of theology in 1990 at the Seminary of the Missionaries of Scheut (Theologate Eugene de Mazenot) in Kinshasa, as well. He holds a Bachelor's degree in social communication, majoring in communication sciences, obtained from the University of São Paulo in Ottawa in Canada. He continued his studies and graduated with a Master's degree in the same field of study from the University of Montreal, in Quebec in 1998.

Priest He became a member of the Society of the Divine Word, while in seminary. He took his preliminary vows as a member of that religious Order in 1987. He took his solemn vows in 1990. He was ordained a priest for the same Society on 29 September 1990 by Eugénio Salessu, at that time Bishop of Malanje. He served as priest until 6 June 2007.