Diocese of Petrolina
Petrolinen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Petrolina, Brazil
The Diocese of Petrolina in Pernambuco was erected on November 30, 1923, separated from the Diocese of Pesqueira. Bishop Antonio Carlos Cruz Santos, a Missionary of the Sacred Heart, was appointed in April 2024 and installed on June 29, 2024.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 30 November 1923
- Latin
- Petrolinen(sis)
- Patron
- Sacred Heart of Jesus
- Annuario code
- 001002589
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 369,000
- Population
- 650,000
- Catholic share
- 56.8%
- Priests
- 34
- Catholics per priest
- 10,853
- Extent
- 31,065 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 12
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
- Antônio Carlos Cruz Santos
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 do Sagrado Coracao de Jesus e Cristo Rei stands in Petrolina, 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 Olinda e Recife
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Olinda e Recife.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of Afogados da IngazeiraAfogados da Ingazeira
- Diocese of CaruaruCaruaru
- Diocese of FlorestaFloresta
- Diocese of GaranhunsGaranhuns
- Diocese of NazaréNazaré
- Archdiocese of Olinda e RecifeOlinda e Recife
- Diocese of PalmaresPalmares
- Diocese of PesqueiraPesqueira
- Diocese of SalgueiroSalgueiro
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
In the state of Pernambuco in Southern Brazil, the Diocese of Petrolina (Latin: Dioecesis Petrolinensis) is a Latin Church territory suffragan to the metropolitan Archdiocese of Olinda e Recife. Its cathedra stands in the Catedral Sagrado Coração de Jesus e Cristo Rei, dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Christ the King, in the episcopal see of Petrolina.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Cúria Diocesana, Praça Dom Antônio Malan 99, 56302-330 Petrolina, PE, Brasil
- Telephone
- [087]3861-2874; fax 3861-5929
- [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].