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Suffragan diocese Carolina, Brazil

Diocese of Carolina

Carolinen(sis) in Brasilia

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

Esri
Carolina, Brazil, drawn to the town rather than to the door: the register holds no verified address for its cathedral.

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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.

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.