Diocese of Pinheiro
Pineren(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Pinheiro, Brazil
First established as the Territorial Prelature of Pinheiro in 1939, it was promoted to a diocese on October 16, 1979. Located in Maranhao and suffragan to Sao Luis do Maranhao, it is led by Bishop Elio Rama of the Consolata Missionaries.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 22 July 1939
- Latin
- Pineren(sis)
- Patron
- Saint Ignatius of Loyola
- Annuario code
- 001002605
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 329,000
- Population
- 435,240
- Catholic share
- 75.6%
- Priests
- 38
- Catholics per priest
- 8,658
- Extent
- 14,744 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 22
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
- Elio Rama
- Born
- 28 October 1953
- Birthplace
- Tucunduva
- Institute
- ISTITUTO MISSIONI CONSOLATA
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 Inacio de Loiola stands in Pinheiro, 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 Sao Luis do Maranhao
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Sao Luis do Maranhao.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of CoroatáCoroatá
- Diocese of ImperatrizImperatriz
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Centered on the city of Pinheiro, this Brazilian diocese (Latin: Dioecesis Pinerensis) sits within the ecclesiastical province of São Luís do Maranhão.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Cúria Diocesana, Av. Presidente Eurico Dutra 386 A, 65200-000 Pinheiro, MA, Brasil
- Telephone
- [098]98412-4925
- [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].