sentences:  By 2013, the archdiocese had approximately 1.5 million Roman Catholics and 75 diocesan priests.On 9 September 1940, the Diocese of Nova Lisboa was established on assembled territories split off from the Diocese of São Paulo de Loanda and mission sui iuris of Cunene, mainly to serve the growing European population in what was then the colony of Portuguese Angola.As time went on, it shed territory due to the creation of other dioceses