Diocese of Bragança do Pará
Brigantien(sis) de Pará
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Bragança do Pará, Brazil
The Diocese of Bragança do Pará is a Latin Church diocese in Pará state, Brazil, established as a territorial prelature in 1928 and elevated to a diocese on October 13, 1981. Raimundo Possidônio Carrera da Mata became diocesan bishop on May 15, 2024, succeeding Jesús María Cizaurre Berdonces.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 1981
- Latin
- Brigantien(sis) de Pará
- Patron
- Our Lady of the Rosary
- Annuario code
- 001000943
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 794,000
- Population
- 1,123,000
- Catholic share
- 70.7%
- Priests
- 55
- Catholics per priest
- 14,436
- Extent
- 68,316 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 12
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
- Raimundo Possidônio Carrera da Mata
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 de Nossa Senhora do Rosário stands in Bragança do Pará, 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 Belém do Pará
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Belém do Pará.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of AbaetetubaAbaetetuba
- Archdiocese of Belém do ParáBelém do Pará
- Diocese of CametáCametá
- Diocese of CastanhalCastanhal
- Diocese of MacapáMacapá
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
The city of Bragança do Pará is home to a Roman Catholic diocese (Latin: Dioecesis Brigantiensis de Para) belonging to the ecclesiastical province of Belém do Pará 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].