Paulo Mandlate

(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.

[1] 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.

[2] He was the first person of black skin color to head that diocese.