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Suffragan territorial prelature Marajó, Brazil

Diocese of Marajó

Maraien(sis)

Marajo is a Latin Church territorial prelature centered in Soure, Para state, Brazil, erected in 1928 and suffragan to the Archdiocese of Belem do Para. Its current prelate is Bishop Jose Ionilton Lisboa de Oliveira, S.D.V., appointed in 2023.

On the map

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

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Established
1928
Catholics
213,480
Priests
29
Territory
86,477 km²

Parishes and churches

10 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.

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The bishop

Bishop
José Ionilton Lisboa de Oliveira
Born
9 March 1962
Birthplace
Araci
Institute
SOCIETÀ DIVINE VOCAZIONI (PADRI VOCAZIONISTI)

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The cathedral

Catedral Prelaticia Nossa Senhora da Consolacao stands in Marajó, 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

Erected on April 14, 1928 from territory of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Belém do Pará, the Territorial Prelature of Marajó (Latin: Praelatura Territorialis Maraiensis) is seated in the city of Marajó within that same ecclesiastical province in Brazil.