Skip to the diocese
Catholic Intelligence
J.M.J.Search

Suffragan diocese Teixeira de Freitas–Caravelas, Brazil

Diocese of Teixeira de Freitas–Caravelas

Taxen(sis)-Carabellen(sis)

Latin Church

Latin rite diocese in Bahia, Brazil, erected in 1962 as the Diocese of Caravelas and renamed in 1983. It is a suffragan of São Salvador da Bahia. Dom Aldemiro Sena dos Santos was appointed by Pope Leo XIV on February 4, 2026 and installed as the 5th bishop on April 7, 2026.

On the map

Esri
The address the register holds for Catedral São Pedro, in Teixeira de Freitas–Caravelas, Brazil.

Every see on one map: browse the dioceses. Churches with recorded hours: find Mass times.

Established
1962
Catholics
292,000
Priests
42
Territory
18,574 km²

Parishes and churches

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

This is our recorded coverage, not an official diocesan parish count. Confirm service times with the parish before travelling.

The bishop

Bishop
Aldemiro Sena dos Santos

Explore the ministry of the bishop.

The cathedral

Catedral São Pedro stands in Teixeira de Freitas–Caravelas, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

Its co-cathedral is Co-Catedral Santo Antônio.

On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.

History

Spanning the cities of Teixeira de Freitas and Caravelas, this diocese (Latin: Dioecesis Taxensis-Carabellensis) belongs to the ecclesiastical province of São Salvador da Bahia in Brazil.

This see in the wire

Filed by the see itself

Published on the see's own news feed. A diocese reports on the whole Church, so these are often about somewhere else.

3 stories in the wire either name this see or come from its own feed. Read the wire.