Diocese of Floriano
Florianen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Floriano, Brazil
Latin-rite diocese centered on Floriano in Piaui state, northeastern Brazil. Erected 27 February 2008 from the Diocese of Oeiras-Floriano and a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Teresina. Its cathedral is the Catedral Sao Pedro de Alcantara.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 27 February 2008
- Latin
- Florianen(sis)
- Patron
- san Pedro de Alcántara
- Annuario code
- 001001420
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 162,100
- Population
- 285,274
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 56.8%
- Priests
- 32
- Catholics per priest
- 5,066
- Extent
- 58,697 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 2.8
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
- Edivalter Andrade
- Born
- 17 April 1962
- Birthplace
- Barra de São Francisco
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 Sao Pedro de Alcantara stands in Floriano, 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 Teresina
A suffragan of Teresina.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of Bom Jesus do GurguéiaBom Jesus do Gurguéia
- Diocese of Campo MaiorCampo Maior
- Diocese of OeirasOeiras
- Diocese of ParnaíbaParnaíba
- Diocese of PicosPicos
- Diocese of São Raimundo NonatoSão Raimundo Nonato
- Archdiocese of TeresinaTeresina
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
In northeastern Brazil, within the ecclesiastical province of Teresina, the Diocese of Floriano (Latin: Dioecesis Florianensis) serves as a suffragan Latin see. Its episcopal seat is the Cathedral São Pedro de Alcântara, dedicated to Peter of Alcantara, in the city of Floriano in Piauí state.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Cúria Diocesana, Rua Francisco de Abreu Rocha 777, 64800-124 Floriano, PI, Brasil
- Telephone
- [089]3522-1762
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.