Diocese of Jequié
Iequiean(us)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Jequié, Brazil
The Diocese of Jequie is a Latin Rite suffragan diocese in Bahia, Brazil, erected in 1978 from territory of the dioceses of Amargosa and Vitoria da Conquista. It is suffragan to the Archdiocese of Vitoria da Conquista.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 7 November 1978
- Latin
- Iequiean(us)
- Patron
- Saint Anthony of Padua
- Annuario code
- 001001731
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 597,000
- Population
- 580,000
- Priests
- 55
- Catholics per priest
- 10,855
- Extent
- 18,771 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 32
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
- Paulo Romeu Dantas Bastos
- Born
- 20 August 1955
- Birthplace
- Nova Soure
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 Santo Antonio de Padua stands in Jequié, 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 Vitoria da Conquista
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Vitoria da Conquista.
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Seated in the city of Jequié, this Brazilian diocese (Latin: Dioecesis Iequieana) forms part of the ecclesiastical province of Vitória da Conquista.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Cúria Diocesana, Rua Padre Altino Freire 240, 45200-237 Jequié, BA, Brasil
- Telephone
- e fax [073]3525-6770
- [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].