Wikipedia's article on Afonso I of Kongo, community-edited. Reliable for his reign, 1509 to late 1542 or 1543, during which, unlike his father, he remained Catholic throughout and worked to convert his kingdom, founding schools at Mbanza Kongo that held over 1,000 students by 1516 and sending his own son Henrique to Portugal, who was elevated to bishop in 1518, one of the first sub-Saharan African Catholic bishops.
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PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afonso_I_of_Kongo
Source Typereference
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Community-edited reference page, tier 3. Used for the 1509-1518 span of Afonso I's durable establishment of Christianity in Kongo, both dates stated plainly in the article's own text. NotesUsed for Afonso I's durable establishment of Christianity in Kongo.
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