Diocese of Floriano
Florianen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Floriano, Brazil
Latin-rite diocese centered on Floriano in Piaui state, northeastern Brazil. Erected 27 February 2008 from the Diocese of Oeiras-Floriano and a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Teresina. Its cathedral is the Catedral Sao Pedro de Alcantara.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 27 February 2008
- Latin
- Florianen(sis)
- Patron
- san Pedro de Alcántara
- Annuario code
- 001001420
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 162,100
- Population
- 285,274
- Catholic share
- 56.8%
- Priests
- 32
- Catholics per priest
- 5,066
- Extent
- 58,697 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 2.8
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
- Edivalter Andrade
- Born
- 17 April 1962
- Birthplace
- Barra de São Francisco
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 Sao Pedro de Alcantara stands in Floriano, 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 Teresina
A suffragan of Teresina.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of Bom Jesus do GurguéiaBom Jesus do Gurguéia
- Diocese of Campo MaiorCampo Maior
- Diocese of OeirasOeiras
- Diocese of ParnaíbaParnaíba
- Diocese of PicosPicos
- Diocese of São Raimundo NonatoSão Raimundo Nonato
- Archdiocese of TeresinaTeresina
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
In northeastern Brazil, within the ecclesiastical province of Teresina, the Diocese of Floriano (Latin: Dioecesis Florianensis) serves as a suffragan Latin see. Its episcopal seat is the Cathedral São Pedro de Alcântara, dedicated to Peter of Alcantara, in the city of Floriano in Piauí state.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Cúria Diocesana, Rua Francisco de Abreu Rocha 777, 64800-124 Floriano, PI, Brasil
- Telephone
- [089]3522-1762
- [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].