Bacabal diocese

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Bacabal diocese
Basic data
Country Brazil
Metropolitan bishopric Archdiocese of São Luís do Maranhão
Diocesan bishop Armando Martín Gutiérrez FAM
Vicar General José Alberto de Carvalho Saturnino
founding 1968
surface 16,945 km²
Parishes 17 (2015 / AP 2016 )
Residents 520.704 (2015 / AP 2016 )
Catholics 506,000 (2015 / AP 2016 )
proportion of 97.2%
Diocesan priest 16 (2015 / AP 2016 )
Religious priest 22 (2015 / AP 2016 )
Catholics per priest 13,316
Permanent deacons 12 (2015 / AP 2016 )
Friars 27 (2015 / AP 2016 )
Religious sisters 33 (2015 / AP 2016 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language Portuguese
cathedral Catedral Santa Terezinha
Website http://diocesedebacabal.blogspot.it/

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Bacabal ( Latin Dioecesis Bacabalensis , Portuguese Diocese de Bacabal ) is in Brazil located Roman Catholic diocese based in Bacabal in the state of Maranhão .

history

The diocese of Bacabal was on June 22, 1968 by Pope Paul VI. established with the Apostolic Constitution Visibilis natura from cessions of territory of the Archdiocese of São Luís do Maranhão and the Territorial Prelature of São José do Grajaú . It was subordinated to the Archdiocese of São Luís do Maranhão as a suffragan .

Bishops of Bacabal

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Paul VI: Const. Apost. Visibilis natura , AAS 61 (1969), n.1, p. 16ff.