Roman Catholic Diocese of Imperatriz

5°31′49.3″S 47°27′23.3″W / 5.530361°S 47.456472°W / -5.530361; -47.456472

Diocese of Imperatriz

Dioecesis Imperatricis
Catedral Nossa Senhora da Fátima in 2012
Location
Country Brazil
Ecclesiastical provinceSão Luís do Maranhão
Statistics
Area22,659 km2 (8,749 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics
(as of 2004)
470,000
376,000 (80.0%)
Information
RiteLatin Rite
Established27 June 1987 (37 years ago)
CathedralCatedral Nossa Senhora da Fátima
Current leadership
PopeFrancis
BishopGilberto Pastana de Oliveira
Metropolitan ArchbishopJosé Belisário da Silva, O.F.M.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Imperatriz (Latin: Dioecesis Imperatricis) is a suffragan Latin diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan of São Luís do Maranhão in northeastern Brazil.

Its cathedral episcopal see is Catedral Nossa Senhora da Fátima, dedicated to Our Lady of Fatima, in the city of Imperatriz, Maranhão state.

History

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  • Established on 27 June 1987 as Diocese of Imperatriz, on territory split off from the Diocese of Carolina.

Statistics

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As per 2014, it pastorally served 414,000 Catholics (79.9% of 518,000 total) on 25,958 km2 in 27 parishes and 2 missions with 43 priests (29 diocesan, 14 religious), 1 deacon, 65 lay religious (19 brothers, 46 sisters) and 7 seminarians .

Bishops

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(all Roman rite)

Episcopal ordinaries

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Suffragan Bishops of Imperatriz

Other priest of this diocese who became bishops

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See also

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