Diocese of Santiago de Cabo Verde
| Diocese of Santiago de Cabo Verde | |
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Country | Cape Verde |
| Ecclesiastical province | Immediate |
| Diocesan bishop | Arlindo Cardinal Gomes Furtado |
| Vicar General | Caetano Pimenta Pereira |
| founding | 1533 |
| surface | 1,804 km² |
| Parishes | 23 (2014) |
| Residents | 408,000 (2014) |
| Catholics | 389,000 (2014) |
| proportion of | 95.3% |
| Diocesan priest | 19 (2014) |
| Religious priest | 21 (2014) |
| Catholics per priest | 9,725 |
| Friars | 31 (2014) |
| Religious sisters | 71 (2014) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language |
Portuguese Cape Verdean Creole |
| cathedral | Catedral Nossa Senhora Assumpcao |
| Co-cathedral | Nossa Senhora da Graça , Praia |
| Website | diocesesantiago.org |
The diocese of Santiago de Cabo Verde ( Latin : Dioecesis Sancti Iacobi Capitis Viridis ) on the island of Santiago with its seat in Praia is a Roman Catholic diocese in Cape Verde and includes the southern archipelago . It is immediate , that is, not a metropolitan seat , but directly subordinated to the Holy See .
history
The diocese was detached from the Portuguese diocese of Funchal on January 31, 1533 and was subordinate to this until 1551, after which the Patriarchate of Lisbon as a suffragan . After the Mission sui juris Guinea Portoghese , today's diocese of Bissau , was spun off from it on September 4, 1940 , there were still 168,109 Catholics (95.1%) in 30 parishes with 7 diocesan priests , 18 religious priests and 9 religious sisters in 1950 .
On December 9, 2003, the also immediate diocese of Mindelo was removed from the diocese of Santiago de Cabo Verde.
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See also
Web links
- Entry for the Diocese of Santiago de Cabo Verde on catholic-hierarchy.org
- Website with photo of the church in Praia
- Entry on the diocese of Santiago de Cabo Verde on gcatholic.org (English)