Diocese of Borba
Borben(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Borba, Brazil
The Diocese of Borba is a Latin Church diocese in Amazonas state, Brazil, established as a territorial prelature on July 13, 1963 and promoted to a diocese on November 18, 2022. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Manaus.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 13 July 1963
- Latin
- Borben(sis)
- Patron
- Saint Anthony of Padua
- Annuario code
- 001000255
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 155,000
- Population
- 190,000
- Catholic share
- 81.6%
- Priests
- 8
- Catholics per priest
- 19,375
- Extent
- 170,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.9
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
- Zenildo Luiz Pereira da Silva, C.Ss.R.
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 Basílica Santo Antônio de Pádua stands in Borba, 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 Manaus
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Manaus.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of Alto SolimõesAlto Solimões
- Diocese of CoariCoari
- Archdiocese of ManausManaus
- Diocese of ParintinsParintins
- Diocese of RoraimaRoraima
- Diocese of São Gabriel da CachoeiraSão Gabriel da Cachoeira
- Territorial Prelature of ItacoatiaraItacoatiara
- Territorial Prelature of TeféTefé
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Borba, a city in Amazonas, is the seat of a Roman Catholic diocese (Latin: Dioecesis Borbensis) that forms part of the ecclesiastical province of Manaus in Brazil.
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].