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Suffragan diocese Viana, Brazil

Diocese of Viana

Vianen(sis)

Latin Church

The Diocese of Viana is a Latin Church diocese in Maranhão, Brazil, established in 1962 from the Archdiocese of São Luís do Maranhão, of which it is a suffragan. It has been led since 2019 by Bishop Evaldo Carvalho dos Santos, C.M.

On the map

Esri
Viana, Brazil, drawn to the town rather than to the door: the register holds no verified address for its cathedral.

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Established
1962
Catholics
460,000
Priests
46
Territory
23,118 km²

Parishes and churches

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

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The bishop

Bishop
Evaldo Carvalho dos Santos

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The cathedral

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

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History

The city of Viana is the seat of this diocese (Latin: Dioecesis Vianensis), part of the ecclesiastical province of São Luís do Maranhão in Brazil.

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