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Roman Catholic Diocese of Imperatriz

Roman Catholic Diocese of Imperatriz

Catholic ecclesiastical territory

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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

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

Statistics

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

(all Roman rite)

Episcopal ordinaries

Suffragan Bishops of Imperatriz

Other priest of this diocese who became bishops

  • Francisco Lima Soares, appointed Bishop of Carolina, Maranhão in 2018

See also


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