Diocese of Zé Doca

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Diocese of Zé Doca
Basic data
Country Brazil
Metropolitan bishopric Archdiocese of São Luís do Maranhão
Diocesan bishop Jan Kot OMI
Emeritus diocesan bishop Carlo Ellena
founding 1961
surface 35,110 km²
Parishes 20 (2014 / AP 2015 )
Residents 334,000 (2014 / AP 2015 )
Catholics 307,500 (2014 / AP 2015 )
proportion of 92.1%
Diocesan priest 24 (2014 / AP 2015 )
Religious priest 2 (2014 / AP 2015 )
Catholics per priest 11,827
Permanent deacons 1 (2014 / AP 2015 )
Friars 8 (2014 / AP 2015 )
Religious sisters 21 (2014 / AP 2015 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language Portuguese
cathedral Catedral Santo Antônio de Pádua

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

history

The diocese of Zé Doca was founded on October 16, 1961 by Pope John XXIII. established with the Apostolic Constitution Quod Christ Iesus from cessions of territory by the Territorial Prelature Pinheiro as the Territorial Prelature Cândido Mendes . The territorial prelature Cândido Mendes was subordinate to the Archdiocese of São Luís do Maranhão as a suffragan .

On October 13, 1983, the territorial prelature Cândido Mendes was raised to the diocese by Pope John Paul II with the Apostolic Constitution In Brasilia Praelaturae . The diocese of Cândido Mendes was renamed on July 5, 1991 in the diocese of Zé Doca .

Ordinaries

Prelates of Cândido Mendes

Bishops of Cândido Mendes

Bishops of Zé Doca

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ioannes XXIII: Const. Apost. Quod Christ Iesus , AAS 54 (1962), n.12, p. 691ff.
  2. ↑ Ioannes Paulus II: Const. Apost. In Brasilia Praelaturae , AAS 76 (1984), n.2, pp. 73f.