Diocese of Teixeira de Freitas-Caravelas
| Diocese of Teixeira de Freitas-Caravelas | |
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Country | Brazil |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of São Salvador da Bahia |
| Diocesan bishop | Jailton de Oliveira Lino PSDP |
| founding | 1962 |
| surface | 18,574 km² |
| Parishes | 25 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| Residents | 427.260 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| Catholics | 337,890 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| proportion of | 79.1% |
| Diocesan priest | 30 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| Religious priest | 5 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 9,654 |
| Friars | 8 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| Religious sisters | 31 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | Portuguese |
| cathedral | São Pedro Cathedral in Teixeira de Freitas |
| Co-cathedral | Co-Catedral Santo Antônio in Caravelas |
| Website | http://dioceseteixeiradefreitas.com.br/novo/ |
The diocese Teixeira de Freitas Caravelas ( Latin Dioecesis Taxensis-Carabellensis , Portuguese Diocese de Teixeira de Freitas-Caravelas ) is in Brazil located Roman Catholic diocese based in Teixeira de Freitas in the state of Bahia .
history
The diocese Teixeira de Freitas-Caravelas was on July 21, 1962 by Pope John XXIII. established with the Apostolic Constitution Omnium Ecclesiarum from cessions of territory from the Diocese of Ilhéus as the Diocese of Caravelas . It was subordinated to the Archdiocese of São Salvador da Bahia as a suffragan .
On April 18, 1983, the Caravelas diocese was renamed the Teixeira de Freitas-Caravelas diocese . The diocese of Teixeira de Freitas-Caravelas gave up on June 12, 1996 parts of its territory to establish the diocese of Eunápolis .
Ordinaries
Bishops of Caravelas
- Filippo Tiago Broers, OFM , 1963-1983
Bishops of Teixeira de Freitas-Caravelas
- Antônio Eliseu Zuqueto, OFMCap , 1983-2005
- Carlos Alberto dos Santos , 2005–2017, then Bishop of Itabuna
- Jailton de Oliveira Lino PSDP , since 2017