Diocese of Carolina

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Diocese of Carolina
Basic data
Country Brazil
Metropolitan bishopric Archdiocese of São Luís do Maranhão
Diocesan bishop Francisco Lima Soares
Emeritus diocesan bishop José Soares Filho OFMCap
founding 1958
surface 18,252 km²
Parishes 11 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Residents 175,800 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Catholics 158,100 (2016 / AP 2017 )
proportion of 89.9%
Diocesan priest 12 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Catholics per priest 13,175
Religious sisters 2 (2016 / AP 2017 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language Portuguese
cathedral São Pedro de Alcântara Cathedral

The diocese Carolina ( Latin Dioecesis carolinensis in Brasilia , Portuguese Diocese de Carolina ) is an in Brazil located Roman Catholic diocese based in Carolina in the state of Maranhão .

history

The diocese of Carolina was on January 14, 1958 by Pope Pius XII. established with the Apostolic Constitution Qui aeque from assignments of territory by the territorial prelature São José do Grajaú as the territorial prelature Carolina . The Territorial Prelature Carolina was subordinated to the Archdiocese of São Luís do Maranhão as a suffragan .

On October 16, 1979, the Territorial Prelature Carolina was raised to the diocese by Pope John Paul II with the Apostolic Constitution Cum praelaturae . On June 27, 1987, the Diocese of Carolina gave up parts of its territory to establish the Diocese of Imperatriz .

Ordinaries

Prelates of Carolina

Bishops of Carolina

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pius XII: Const. Apost. Qui aeque , AAS 50 (1958), n.13, p. 615ff.
  2. ↑ Ioannes Paulus II: Const. Apost. Cum praelaturae , AAS 71 (1979), n.16, pp. 1504f.