Suffragan diocese Coroatá, Brazil
Diocese of Coroatá
Coroaten(sis)
Latin Church
Latin-rite diocese centered on Coroata in Maranhao state, northeastern Brazil. Erected 26 August 1977 from territory of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Sao Luis do Maranhao, of which it remains a suffragan. Its cathedral is the Catedral Nossa Senhora da Piedade.
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- Established
- 1977
- Catholics
- 401,134
- Priests
- 44
- Territory
- 18,744 km²
Parishes and churches
1 listed church 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
- Sebastiao Bandeira Coelho
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The cathedral
Catedral Nossa Senhora da Piedade stands in Coroatá, 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
Within Brazil's ecclesiastical province of São Luís do Maranhão, the city of Coroatá is the seat of a Roman Catholic diocese known in Latin as Dioecesis Coroatensis.