Suffragan diocese Pinheiro, Brazil
Diocese of Pinheiro
Pineren(sis)
Latin Church
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.
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- Established
- 1979
- Catholics
- 329,000
- Priests
- 38
- Territory
- 14,744 km²
Parishes and churches
22 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
- Santo Inácio de LoiolaPinheiro · CathedralView parish
- Divino Espírito SantoMirinzalView parish
- Nossa Senhora da ConceiçãoPinheiroView parish
- Nossa Senhora da ConceiçãoCedralView parish
- Nossa Senhora da ConceiçãoCentral do MaranhãoView parish
- Nossa Senhora da ConceiçãoPresidente SarneyView parish
- Nossa Senhora do CarmoAlcântaraView parish
- Santa HelenaSanta HelenaView parish
- Santa LuziaTurilândiaView parish
- Santo AntônioBequimãoView parish
- Santo Antônio de LisboaPalmeirândiaView parish
- Santíssimo SalvadorAlcântaraView parish
- São BeneditoPinheiroView parish
- São BentoSão BentoView parish
- São Francisco XavierTuriaçuView parish
- São JorgeCururupuView parish
- São JoséPinheiroView parish
- São JoséGuimarãesView parish
- São João BatistaCururupuView parish
- São Paulo ApóstoloSerrano do MaranhãoView parish
- São SebastiãoPeri MirimView parish
- São SebastiãoBacuriView parish
This is our recorded coverage, not an official diocesan parish count. Confirm service times with the parish before travelling.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Elio Rama
- Born
- 28 October 1953
- Birthplace
- Tucunduva
- Institute
- ISTITUTO MISSIONI CONSOLATA
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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.
History
Centered on the city of Pinheiro, this Brazilian diocese (Latin: Dioecesis Pinerensis) sits within the ecclesiastical province of São Luís do Maranhão.