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Diocese of Bragança do Pará

Brigantien(sis) de Pará

The Diocese of Bragança do Pará is a Latin Church diocese in Pará state, Brazil, established as a territorial prelature in 1928 and elevated to a diocese on October 13, 1981. Raimundo Possidônio Carrera da Mata became diocesan bishop on May 15, 2024, succeeding Jesús María Cizaurre Berdonces.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
1981
Latin
Brigantien(sis) de Pará
Patron
Our Lady of the Rosary
Annuario code
001000943

The see in figures

Catholics
794,000
Population
1,123,000
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
70.7%
Priests
55
Catholics per priest
14,436
Extent
68,316 km²
Catholics per km²
12

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
Raimundo Possidônio Carrera da Mata

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

Catedral de Nossa Senhora do Rosário stands in Bragança do Pará, 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 Belém do Pará

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Belém do Pará.

The sees of this province:

On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.

History

The city of Bragança do Pará is home to a Roman Catholic diocese (Latin: Dioecesis Brigantiensis de Para) belonging to the ecclesiastical province of Belém do Pará in Brazil.

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Sources

The see's own website · Wikipedia

Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.