Career
He has been the first Anglican Bishop of Angola since 2003. Soares was born in a village of Kinfinga, near Songo, and educated at the Pastoral Institute in Lukala, Zaire. He was ordained an Anglican priest in 1984 and began working in Uíge Province.
In 1992 he became the Episcopal Delegate for Angola.
In 2000 he was elected Vice-President of the Angolan Council of Churches. In 2003, he was nominated and consecrated the first bishop of the newly created Diocese of Angola.