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Suffragan diocese Sobral, Brazil

Diocese of Sobral

Sobralen(sis)

Latin Church

Latin rite diocese in Ceará, Brazil, erected in 1915 from the Diocese of Ceará. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Fortaleza, with José Luiz Gomes de Vasconcelos as bishop since 2015.

On the map

Esri
The address the register holds for Catedral Nossa Senhora da Conceição, in Sobral, Brazil.

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Established
1915
Catholics
777,000
Priests
74
Territory
18,920 km²

Parishes and churches

44 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.

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The bishop

Bishop
José Luiz Gomes de Vasconcelos

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The cathedral

Catedral Nossa Senhora da Conceição stands in Sobral, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

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History

In the ecclesiastical province of Fortaleza in Brazil, this diocese (Latin: Dioecesis Sobralensis, Portuguese: Diocese de Sobral) has its seat in the city of Sobral.

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