Diocese of Coroatá
Coroaten(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Coroatá, Brazil
Latin-rite diocese centered on Coroata in Maranhao state, northeastern Brazil. Erected 26 August 1977 from territory of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Sao Luis do Maranhao, of which it remains a suffragan. Its cathedral is the Catedral Nossa Senhora da Piedade.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 26 August 1977
- Latin
- Coroaten(sis)
- Patron
- Nossa Senhora da Piedade
- Annuario code
- 001001217
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 401,134
- Population
- 501,418
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 80.0%
- Priests
- 44
- Catholics per priest
- 9,117
- Extent
- 18,744 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 21
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
- Sebastiao Bandeira Coelho
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 Nossa Senhora da Piedade stands in Coroatá, 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 Sao Luis do Maranhao
A suffragan of Sao Luis do Maranhao.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of ImperatrizImperatriz
- Diocese of PinheiroPinheiro
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Within Brazil's ecclesiastical province of São Luís do Maranhão, the city of Coroatá is the seat of a Roman Catholic diocese known in Latin as Dioecesis Coroatensis.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Rua Senador Leite 935, 65415-000 Coroatá, MA, Brasil
- Telephone
- [099]98438-7348
This see keeps no website of its own, so the address of its diocesan offices 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.
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Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.