Diocese of Palmeira dos Índios
Palmirien(sis) Indorum
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Palmeira dos Índios, Brazil
The Diocese of Palmeira dos Índios is a Latin Church suffragan diocese in the state of Alagoas, erected in 1962 within the ecclesiastical province of Maceió. The see became vacant (sede vacante) in March 2026 after Bishop Manoel de Oliveira Soares Filho was transferred to the Diocese of Castanhal.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 10 February 1962
- Latin
- Palmirien(sis) Indorum
- Patron
- Our Lady of Amparo
- Annuario code
- 001002525
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 603,000
- Population
- 639,000
- Catholic share
- 94.4%
- Priests
- 56
- Catholics per priest
- 10,768
- Extent
- 11,027 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 55
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
The register holds no ordinary for this see. Where a chair is vacant the vacancy is the fact, and it is recorded rather than filled in. See the bishop.
The cathedral
Catedral Nossa Senhora do Amparo stands in Palmeira dos Índios, 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 Maceió
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Maceió.
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Within the ecclesiastical province of Maceió in Brazil lies the Diocese of Palmeira dos Índios (Latin: Dioecesis Palmiriensis Indorum), seated in the city of the same name.
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].