Estanislau Marques Chindekasse

Estanislau Marques Chindekasse S.V.D., (born 18 August 1958) is an Angolan Catholic prelate who is the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Dundo, in Angola, since 22 December 2012. Before that, from 22 November 1987, he was a priest of the Roman Catholic religious Society of the Divine Word. He was appointed bishop by Pope Benedict XVI. He was consecrated bishop on 3 March 2013. He was installed at Dundo on 17 March 2013.

Background and education He was born in Huambo on 18 August 1958. He attended primary and secondary schools in his home area. He studied at the Christ Roi Philosophy Seminary at Huambo. He studied at the Novitiate Seminary of the Society of the Divine Word in Lisbon. He then studied at the Catholic University of Portugal, graduating with a Licentiate in Theology. From 1994 until 1998, he studied at the Pontifical Gregorian University, in Rome, where he graduated with a Doctorate in Philosophy.

Priest In 1986 he took his perpetual vows as a member of the religious Society of the Divine Word. He was ordained a priest of that same religious Order on 22 November 1987 by Eugénio Salessu, Bishop of Malanje. He served as a priest until 22 December 2012.

Bishop On 22 December 2012, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Reverend Father Estanislau Marques Chindekasse, S.V.D., previously the "General Consulter" of the Society of the Divine Word, as the bishop of Dundo.