Diocese of Brejo
Breien(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Brejo, Brazil
The Diocese of Brejo is a Latin Church diocese in Maranhão state, Brazil, established on September 14, 1971. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of São Luís do Maranhão.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 14 September 1971
- Latin
- Breien(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001000951
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 493,850
- Population
- 448,000
- Priests
- 29
- Catholics per priest
- 17,029
- Extent
- 23,340 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 21
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
- José Valdeci Santos Mendes
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 Nossa Senhora da Conceição stands in Brejo, 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 BacabalBacabal
- Diocese of BalsasBalsas
- 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
Seated in the city of Brejo, this Roman Catholic diocese (Latin: Dioecesis Breiensis) belongs to Brazil's ecclesiastical province of São Luís do Maranhão.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Residência Episcopal, Praça Benedito Leite 166, 65520-000 Brejo, MA, Brasil
- Telephone
- [098]98337-9527
- [email protected]
This see keeps no website of its own, so its chancery is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.
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 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
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].