Suffragan diocese Carolina, Brazil
Diocese of Carolina
Carolinen(sis) in Brasilia
Latin Church
The Diocese of Carolina is a Latin Church suffragan diocese in Maranhao state, northeastern Brazil. It was erected as a territorial prelature in 1958 and promoted to a diocese in 1979, with a cathedral dedicated to Saint Peter of Alcantara.
On the map
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- Established
- 1979
- Catholics
- 158,100
- Priests
- 14
- Territory
- 18,252 km²
Parishes and churches
14 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
- Paróquia de São Pedro de Alcântara - Catedral DiocesanaCarolina · CathedralView parish
- Comunidade Nossa Senhora da Conceição Aparecida – Povoado Vão do MarcoTown not recordedView parish
- Paróquia de Santo Antônio de PáduaTown not recordedView parish
- Paróquia de São Sebastião - Cidade de Estreito-MAEstreitoView parish
- Paróquia Nossa Senhora da Imaculada ConceiçãoTown not recordedView parish
- Paróquia Nossa Senhora de FátimaTown not recordedView parish
- Paróquia Santa AnaTown not recordedView parish
- Paróquia São Francisco de AssisTown not recordedView parish
- Paróquia São Francisco de AssisTown not recordedView parish
- Paróquia São João BatistaTown not recordedView parish
- Paróquia São João BatistaTown not recordedView parish
- Paróquia São Pedro ApóstoloTown not recordedView parish
- Paróquia São Raimundo NonatoTown not recordedView parish
- Paróquia São SebastiãoTown not recordedView parish
This is our recorded coverage, not an official diocesan parish count. Confirm service times with the parish before travelling.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Francisco Lima Soares
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The cathedral
Catedral São Pedro de Alcântara stands in Carolina, 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.
History
In Maranhão state in northeastern Brazil, the Diocese of Carolina (Latin: Dioecesis Carolinensis in Brasilia) is a suffragan see of the ecclesiastical province of São Luís do Maranhão. Its cathedral, the Catedral São Pedro de Alcântara in the city of Carolina, Maranhão, honors Saint Peter of Alcantara.