Country Portugal Intermunic. comm. Tâmega e Sousa Time zone WET/WEST (UTC+0/+1) Area 96.08 km² Local time Monday 7:38 PM Region Norte Region, Portugal | Subregion Tâmega Parishes 15 Website www.cm-lousada.pt Population 47,387 (2011) District Porto District | |
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Lousada ([lowˈzaðɐ]) 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.
Contents
- Map of Lousada Portugal
- Ecclesiastical history
- Titular see
- Civil Parishes
- Eurocircuito da Costilha
- Disappearance of Rui Pedro Teixeira Mendona
- References
Map of Lousada, Portugal
It includes the site of Ancient Magnetum (Portuguese Magneto), in the civil parish 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, its apparent Metropolitan.
In 585, when the kingdom was annexed by the 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 :
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 :
Civil Parishes
The municipality of Lousada is subdivided into the following parishes:
Eurocircuito da Costilha
This circuit has been used several times for the European autocross championship and it is traditionally the circuit where the Portuguese round of the FIA European Championship for rallycross drivers takes place.
Disappearance of Rui Pedro Teixeira Mendonça
Rui Pedro Teixeira Mendonça went missing on March 4, 1998 in Lousada, Portugal. Rui Pedro was 11 years old and riding his bicycle outside near his home when he disappeared. His case remains unsolved.