Balsas diocese
Balsas diocese | |
Basic data | |
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Country | Brazil |
Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of São Luís do Maranhão |
Diocesan bishop | Valentim Fagundes de Meneses MSC (appointed) |
founding | 1954 |
surface | 66,025 km² |
Parishes | 17 (2018 / AP 2019 ) |
Residents | 301,000 (2018 / AP 2019 ) |
Catholics | 201,500 (2018 / AP 2019 ) |
proportion of | 66.9% |
Diocesan priest | 23 (2018 / AP 2019 ) |
Religious priest | 4 (2018 / AP 2019 ) |
Catholics per priest | 7,463 |
Permanent deacons | 2 (2018 / AP 2019 ) |
Friars | 11 (2018 / AP 2019 ) |
Religious sisters | 21 (2018 / AP 2019 ) |
rite | Roman rite |
Liturgical language | Portuguese |
The diocese of Balsas ( Latin Dioecesis Balsensis , Portuguese Diocese de Balsas ) is in Brazil located Roman Catholic diocese based in Balsas in the state of Maranhão .
history
Pope Pius XII founded the territorial prelature of Santo Antônio de Balsas on December 20, 1954 with the Apostolic Constitution Quo modo sollemne from territory of the diocese of Caxias do Maranhão and it was subordinated to the Archdiocese of São Luís do Maranhão as a suffragan diocese.
In 1967 it was expanded to include five parishes. With the Bull Institutionis propositum she was raised to the diocese on October 3, 1981.
Ordinaries
Prelates of Santo Antônio de Balsas
- Diego Parodi MCCJ (May 9, 1959--1966, then auxiliary bishop in Perugia )
- Rino Carlesi MCCJ (January 12, 1967 - October 3, 1981)
Bishops of Balsas
- Rino Carlesi MCCJ (October 3, 1981 - April 15, 1998)
- Gianfranco Masserdotti MCCJ (April 15, 1998 - September 17, 2006)
- Enemésio Ângelo Lazzaris FDP (December 12, 2007 - February 2, 2020)
- Valentim Fagundes de Meneses MSC (since July 29, 2020)
See also
Web links
- Entry on Balsas diocese on catholic-hierarchy.org (English)
- Entry about the Balsas diocese on Giga-Catholic (English)