The Roman Catholic Diocese of Caxias do Maranhão ( la, Dioecesis Caxiensis in Maragnano) is a
suffragan
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In the Anglican Communion, a suffragan bishop is a bishop who is subordinate to a metropolitan bishop or diocesan bishop (bishop ordinary) and so is not normally jurisdictiona ...
Latin
diocese in the
ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan of
São Luís do Maranhão in northeastern
Brazil.
Its
cathedral episcopal see is Catedral de Nossa Senhora dos Remédios, dedicated to the
Virgin of Los Remedios, in the city of
Caxias (do Maranhão), in
Maranhão state.
History
* Established on 22 July 1939 as Diocese of Caxias do Maranhão, on territory split off from its Metropolitan, the
Archdiocese of São Luís do Maranhão
* It lost territory repeatedly : on 1954.12.20 to establish the then
Territorial Prelature of Santo Antônio de Balsas and in 1967 to enlarge the same Territorial Prelature (now
Diocese of Balsas, in the same province).
Statistics
As per 2015, it pastorally served 825,000 Catholics (96.9% of 851,000 total) on 34,449 km² in 23 parishes and 135 missions with 25 priests (23 diocesan, 2 religious), 14 deacons, 48 lay religious (6 brothers, 42 sisters) and 15 seminarians.
Episcopal ordinaries
(all
Roman rite
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)
;''Suffragan Bishops of Caxias do Maranhão''
* Luís Gonzaga da Cunha Marelim,
Congregation of the Mission
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(C.M., Lazarists) (19 July 1941 - retired 18 February 1981), died 1991; no previous prelature
**
Auxiliary Bishop: Cândido Julio Bampi,
Capuchin Franciscans (O.F.M. Cap.) (1957.01.18 – death 1978.07.07); (also previously)
Titular Bishop of
Tlos (1936.06.27 – 1978.07.07), initially as only
Bishop-Prelate of then
Territorial Prelature of Vacaria
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Vacaria ( la, Dioecesis Vaccariensis) is a diocese located in the city of Vacaria in the Ecclesiastical province of Passo Fundo in Brazil.
History
* 8 September 1934: Established as Territorial Prelature of Vacaria ...
(now a diocese, Brazil) (1936.06.27 – 1957.01.18)
* Jorge Tobias de Freitas (15 March 1981 - 7 November 1986), next Bishop of
Nazaré (Brazil) (1986.11.07 – retired 2006.07.26)
* Luís d’Andrea, O.F.M. Conv. (born Italy) (29 October 1987 - retired 19 March 2010), died 2012
* Vilson Basso,
Priests of the Sacred Heart
The Congregation of the Priests of the Sacred Heart ( la, Congregatio Sacerdotum a Sacro Corde Iesu) abbreviated SCI, also called the Dehonians, is a Catholic clerical religious congregation of Pontifical Right for men in the Catholic Church f ...
(S.C.I.) (19 March 2010 – 2017.04.19), next Bishop of
Imperatriz
Imperatriz is the second most populated city in the northeastern Brazilian state of Maranhão. The city extends along the right bank of the Tocantins River and is crossed by the Belém-Brasília Highway, standing on the border with the state of Toc ...
(Brazil) (2017.04.19 – ...).
* Sebastião Lima Duarte (2017.12.20 – ...), previously Bishop of
Viana (Brazil) (2010.07.07 – 2017.12.20).
See also
*
List of Catholic dioceses in Brazil
Sources and external links
GCatholic.org, with Google map - data for all sections
Roman Catholic dioceses in Brazil
Religious organizations established in 1939
Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of São Luís do Maranhão
Roman Catholic dioceses and prelatures established in the 20th century
1939 establishments in Brazil
This year also marks the start of the Second World War, the largest and deadliest conflict in human history.
Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
* January 1
** Third Reich
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