Inácio Saure

Inácio Saure, I.M.C. (born 2 March 1960) is a Mozambican prelate of the Catholic Church who has been Archbishop of Nampula since 2017. He was the Bishop of Tete from 2011 to 2017 and is a member of the Consolata Missionaries.

Biography Inácio Saure was born on 2 March 1960 in Balama, Mozambique. After the outbreak of civil war in Mozambique, he entered the Consolata Seminary in Maputo. He attended courses in philosophy and theology in the seminary of St. Augustine in Matola from 1990 to 1992, and continued his theological studies in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DROC) at the Superior Institute of Theology of St. Eugene of Mazenod in Kinshasa, earning his bachelor's degree in sacred theology in 1998. He made his first vows as a member of the Consolata Mission Institute on 7 January 1995 and his perpetual vows on 15 May 1998. He was ordained a priest on 8 December 1998. He received his episcopal consecration on 22 May from Lucio Andrice Muandula, Bishop of Xai-Xai, and was installed on 5 June.

On 11 April 2017, Pope Francis named him Archbishop of Nampula, and he was installed there on 11 June.

The archbishop has been an outspoken critic of the Government's handling of protests and social unrest following the 2024 elections in Mozambique. He also criticised the handling of the insurgency in Cabo Delgado, and ineficiency in tackling poverty and inequality more generally.

In 2025 Archbishop Inácio Saure complained of illegal occupation of Church lands by squatters. In an article in Aid to the Church in Need, local Church sources imply that the squatters have the backing of the Government, and that the occupations are retaliation for the bishops' outspokenness.