Diocese of Caxias do Maranhão: Difference between revisions

Catholic ecclesiastical territory

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Caxias do Maranhão (Latin: Dioecesis Caxiensis in Maragnano) is a suffragan 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.

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.

(all Roman rite)

Suffragan Bishops of Caxias do Maranhão

• Luís Gonzaga da Cunha Marelim, Congregation of the Mission (C.M., Lazarists) (19 July 1941 – retired 18 February 1981), died 1991; no previous prelature
• 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 (S.C.I.) (19 March 2010 – 2017.04.19), next Bishop of Imperatriz (Brazil) (2017.04.19 – …).
• Sebastião Lima Duarte (2017.12.20 – …), previously Bishop of Viana (Brazil) (2010.07.07 – 2017.12.20).

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