Diocese of Irecê
Irecen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Irecê, Brazil
The Diocese of Irece is a Latin Church suffragan diocese in the state of Bahia, Brazil, established in 1979 from territory of the Dioceses of Barra and Ruy Barbosa. Its cathedral is dedicated to the Good Shepherd.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 28 April 1979
- Latin
- Irecen(sis)
- Patron
- Good Shepherd
- Annuario code
- 001001672
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 344,000
- Population
- 532,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 64.7%
- Priests
- 34
- Catholics per priest
- 10,118
- Extent
- 24,065 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 14
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
- Antônio Ederaldo de Santana
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 do Bom Pastor stands in Irecê, 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 Feira de Santana
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Feira de Santana.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of BarreirasBarreiras
- Diocese of BonfimBonfim
- Archdiocese of Feira de SantanaFeira de Santana
- Diocese of JuazeiroJuazeiro
- Diocese of Paulo AfonsoPaulo Afonso
- Diocese of Ruy BarbosaRuy Barbosa
- Diocese of SerrinhaSerrinha
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
The city of Irecê is the seat of this Brazilian diocese (Latin: Dioecesis Irecensis), which belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Feira de Santana.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Praça Gões Calmon s/n, C.P. 14, 44860-101 Irecê, BA, Brasil
- Telephone and fax
- [074]3641-3835
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.