Paulo Mandlate

Paulo Mandlate S.S.S. (4 February 1934 – 21 August 2019) was a Mozambican prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the Bishop of Tete from 1976 to 2009.

He was born in the Gaza Province on 4 February 1934. Madlate was ordained a priest of the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament on 6 January 1968. Pope Paul VI named him the Bishop of Tete on 31 May 1976, and he was ordained a bishop on 26 September of that year. He was the first person of black skin color to head that diocese. Mandlate retired as bishop on 18 April 2009.

He died in Maputo on 21 August 2019 at the age of 85.