Roman Catholic Diocese of Imperatriz
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Imperatriz (Latin: Dioecesis Imperatricis) is a suffragan Latin diocese in the Ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan of São Luís do Maranhão in northeastern Brazil.
Diocese of Imperatriz Dioecesis Imperatricis | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| Country |  Brazil |
| Ecclesiastical province | São Luís do Maranhão |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 22,659 km2 (8,749 sq mi) |
| Population - Total - Catholics (including non-members) | (as of 2004) 470,000 376,000 (80.0%) |
| Information | |
| Rite | Latin Rite |
| Established | 27 June 1987 (33 years ago) |
| Cathedral | Catedral Nossa Senhora da Fátima |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Francis |
| Bishop | Gilberto Pastana de Oliveira |
| Metropolitan Archbishop | José Belisário da Silva, O.F.M. |
Its cathedral episcopal see is Catedral Nossa Senhora da Fátima, dedicated to Our Lady of Fatima, in the city of Imperatriz, Maranhão state.
History
- Established on 27 June 1987 as Diocese of Imperatriz, on territory split off from the Diocese of Carolina.
Statistics
As per 2014, it pastorally served 414,000 Catholics (79.9% of 518,000 total) on 25,958 km² in 27 parishes and 2 missions with 43 priests (29 diocesan, 14 religious), 1 deacon, 65 lay religious (19 brothers, 46 sisters) and 7 seminarians .
Bishops
(all Roman rite)
Episcopal ordinaries
- Suffragan Bishops of Imperatriz
- Affonso Felippe Gregory (1987.07.16 – retired 2005.08.03), also President of Caritas Internationalis (1991 – 1999); died 2008; previously Titular Bishop of Drusiliana (1979.08.02 – 1987.07.16) as Auxiliary Bishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) (1979.08.02 – 1987.07.16)
- Gilberto Pastana de Oliveira (2005.08.03 – 2017.04.19), also Coadjutor Bishop of Crato (Brazil) (2016.05.18 – 2016.12.28), succeeding as Bishop of Crato (2016.12.28 – ...)
- Vilson Basso, Dehonians (S.C.I.) (2017.04.19 – ...), previously Bishop of Caxias do Maranhão (Brazil) (2010.03.19 – 2017.04.19).
Other priest of this diocese who became bishops
- Francisco Lima Soares, appointed Bishop of Carolina, Maranhão in 2018
See also
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