Diocese of Bacabal
Bacabalen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Bacabal, Brazil
The Diocese of Bacabal is a Latin Church diocese in Maranhão state, Brazil, erected on June 22, 1968 from the Prelature of São José do Grajaú and the Archdiocese of São Luís do Maranhão. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of São Luís do Maranhão.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 22 June 1968
- Latin
- Bacabalen(sis)
- Patron
- Santa Teresinha (Saint Thérèse of Lisieux)
- Annuario code
- 001000775
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 461,000
- Population
- 502,000
- Catholic share
- 91.8%
- Priests
- 44
- Catholics per priest
- 10,477
- Extent
- 15,867 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 29
of the people living within its bounds
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Armando Martín Gutiérrez, F.A.M.
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
Catedral Santa Terezinha stands in Bacabal, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
The province of São Luís do Maranhão
A suffragan of Archdiocese of São Luís do Maranhão.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of BalsasBalsas
- Diocese of BrejoBrejo
- Diocese of CarolinaCarolina
- Diocese of Caxias do MaranhãoCaxias do Maranhão
- Diocese of GrajaúGrajaú
- Archdiocese of São Luís do MaranhãoSão Luís do Maranhão
- Diocese of VianaViana
- Diocese of Zé DocaZé Doca
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Bacabal, a Brazilian city in the ecclesiastical province of São Luís do Maranhão, is the seat of this diocese, called Dioecesis Bacabalensis in Latin.
What is kept by invitation
The record above is published because it is public: what this see is, when it was erected, who holds its chair, and where it stands among its neighbours.
The working record is not. The chancery's address, telephone and email, the clergy of the see, and the hours of Mass, confession and adoration in the parishes within it are kept for members, and a person reads every request.
Sources
The see's own website · Wikipedia
This record is compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. On the method, see the keeping of the record. Whoever finds an error is asked, in charity, to write: [email protected].