Diocese of Santíssima Conceição do Araguaia
Sanctissimae Conceptionis de Araguaia
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Santíssima Conceição do Araguaia, Brazil
The Diocese of Santissima Conceicao do Araguaia is a Latin Church suffragan diocese in Para state, Brazil. Established as a territorial prelature in 1911 and promoted to a diocese on 16 October 1979, it is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Belem do Para.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 27 March 1976
- Latin
- Sanctissimae Conceptionis de Araguaia
- Patron
- Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception
- Annuario code
- 001002975
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 225,000
- Population
- 291,000
- Catholic share
- 77.3%
- Priests
- 21
- Catholics per priest
- 10,714
- Extent
- 52,500 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 4.3
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
- Dominique You
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 the Immaculate Conception stands in Santíssima Conceição do Araguaia, 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 Belem do Para
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Belem do Para.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of MarabáMarabá
- Diocese of MarajóMarajó
- Diocese of Ponta de PedrasPonta de Pedras
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
A Latin suffragan diocese of the Roman Catholic church, (Santíssima) Conceição do Araguaia (Latin: Dioecesis Sanctissimae Conceptionis de Araguaia) belongs to the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan of Belém do Pará in Brazil. In the city of Conceição do Araguaia stands its cathedral see, the Catedral Nossa Senhora da Conceição ('Our Lady of (Immaculate) Conception').
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].