João de Deus Gonçalves Kamtedza
Mozambican Jesuit priest, one of the Martyrs of Chapotera
Who they were
Father João de Deus Kamtedza, a Jesuit born in Angónia in Tete province, was killed on 30 October 1985 near the mission residence of Chapotera together with the Portuguese Jesuit Sílvio Alves Moreira; their bodies were found on 4 November. Vatican News calls them Servants of God.
The miracles
No miracle has been approved. The cause is at its first stage.
Why that counted as sanctity
The joint cause for their martyrdom opened in the diocese of Tete on 20 November 2021, witnesses were heard from January 2022 to June 2023, and the diocesan phase closed on 12 August 2023 at the diocesan shrine of Zóbuè.
The cause
The cause continues. No postulation address is published here yet. Favours received through this person’s intercession, and offers of help, are best sent to the religious order or congregation they belonged to, or to the diocese where the cause was opened; either will pass them to the postulation.
Checked against the sources listed on 24 September 2026. Corrections welcome.