Diocese of Serrinha
Serrignen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Serrinha, Brazil
Latin rite diocese in Bahia, Brazil, erected in 2005 from territory of the Archdiocese of Feira de Santana and the Diocese of Paulo Afonso. It is a suffragan of Feira de Santana, with Hélio Pereira dos Santos as bishop since 2021.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 21 September 2005
- Latin
- Serrignen(sis)
- Patron
- Saint Anne
- Annuario code
- 001003031
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 473,000
- Population
- 550,000
- Catholic share
- 86.0%
- Priests
- 41
- Catholics per priest
- 11,537
- Extent
- 17,169 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 28
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
- Hélio Pereira dos Santos
- Born
- 18 November 1967
- Birthplace
- Pão de Açúcar
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 Saint Anne stands in Serrinha, 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 Feira de Santana
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Feira de Santana.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of BarreirasBarreiras
- Diocese of BonfimBonfim
- Archdiocese of Feira de SantanaFeira de Santana
- Diocese of IrecêIrecê
- Diocese of JuazeiroJuazeiro
- Diocese of Paulo AfonsoPaulo Afonso
- Diocese of Ruy BarbosaRuy Barbosa
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Located in the Brazilian state of Bahia, the Diocese of Serrinha (Latin: Dioecesis Serrignensis) is suffragan to the Archdiocese of Feira de Santana.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Praça Miguel Carneiro 185A, 48700-000 Serrinha, BA, Brasil
- Telephone
- [075]99963-6291
- [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].