Archdiocese of Feira de Santana
| Archdiocese of Feira de Santana | |
| Basic data | |
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| Country | Brazil |
| Diocesan bishop | Zanoni Demettino Castro |
| Emeritus diocesan bishop | Itamar Navildo Vian OFMCap |
| Vicar General | José Nery de Almeida |
| founding | 1962 |
| surface | 6,730 km² |
| Parishes | 39 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Residents | 972.084 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Catholics | 918,000 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| proportion of | 94.4% |
| Diocesan priest | 48 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Religious priest | 19 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 13,701 |
| Permanent deacons | 9 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Friars | 32 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Religious sisters | 122 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | Portuguese |
| cathedral | Catedral Metropolitana Senhora Sant'Ana |
| Website | www.arquidiocese-fsa.org.br |
| Suffragan dioceses |
Diocese of Barra Diocese of Barreiras Diocese of Bonfim Diocese of Irecê Diocese of Juazeiro Diocese of Paulo Afonso Diocese of Ruy Barbosa Diocese of Serrinha |
The Archdiocese of Feira de Santana ( lat. : Archidioecesis Fori Sanctae Annae ) is in Brazil located Roman Catholic Archdiocese based in Feira de Santana in the state of Bahia .
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history
The diocese Feira de Santana was on July 21, 1962 by Pope John XXIII. built with the Papal Bull Novae Ecclesiae from cessions of territory of the Archdiocese of São Salvador da Bahia and subordinated to this as a suffragan . On January 16, 2002, the diocese Feira de Santana was raised to an archdiocese by Pope John Paul II with the Apostolic Constitution Ad totius dominici gregis . The Archdiocese of Feira de Santana gave on September 21, 2005 parts of its territory to establish the Diocese of Serrinha .
Bishops
Bishops of Feira de Santana
- Jackson Berenguer Prado , 1962–1971, then Bishop of Paulo Afonso
- Silvério Jarbas Paulo de Albuquerque OFM , 1973-1995
- Itamar Navildo Vian OFMCap , 1995-2002
Archbishops of Feira de Santana
- Itamar Navildo Vian OFMCap, 2002-2015
- Zanoni Demettino Castro since 2015
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ioannes Paulus II: Const. Apost. Ad totius dominici gregis , AAS 94 (2002), n.4, p. 253f.