Diocese of Óbidos
Obiden(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Óbidos, Brazil
The Diocese of Óbidos is a Latin Rite diocese in Pará, Brazil. It was created as a territorial prelature on 10 April 1957 and elevated to a diocese on 9 November 2011, becoming a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Santarém in 2019.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 1957
- Latin
- Obiden(sis)
- Patron
- Saint Anne
- Annuario code
- 001002440
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 167,379
- Population
- 201,063
- Catholic share
- 83.2%
- Priests
- 32
- Catholics per priest
- 5,231
- Extent
- 182,960 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.9
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
- Bernardo Johannes Bahlmann
- Born
- 10 December 1960
- Birthplace
- Visbek
- Institute
- ORDINE FRANCESCANO FRATI MINORI
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
Cathedral of St. Anne stands in Óbidos, 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 Santarém
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Santarém.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of Alto Xingu–TucumãAlto Xingu–Tucumã
- Diocese of Xingu–AltamiraXingu–Altamira
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Seated in the city of Óbidos, this Roman Catholic diocese (Latin: Dioecesis Obidensis) was a suffragan of the ecclesiastical province of Belém do Pará in Brazil until 6 November 2019, when it passed to the Archdiocese of Santarém as suffragan.
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 chancery's address, telephone and email, 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
The see's own website · Wikipedia
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].