Diocese of Marabá
Maraben(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Marabá, Brazil
The Diocese of Maraba is a Latin Church diocese in Para state, Brazil, established as a territorial prelature in 1969 and promoted to a diocese in 1979. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Belem do Para and is led by Bishop Vital Corbellini.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 1979
- Latin
- Maraben(sis)
- Patron
- Our Lady of Perpetual Help
- Annuario code
- 001002153
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 370,000
- Population
- 533,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 69.4%
- Priests
- 46
- Catholics per priest
- 8,043
- Extent
- 81,832 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 4.5
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
- Vital Corbellini
- Born
- 1 December 1959
- Birthplace
- Garibaldi
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 do Perpetuo Socorro stands in Marabá, 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 Belem do Para
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Belem do Para.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of MarajóMarajó
- Diocese of Ponta de PedrasPonta de Pedras
- Diocese of Santíssima Conceição do AraguaiaSantíssima Conceição do Araguaia
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Marabá serves as the episcopal see of this Latin Church diocese in Brazil (Latin: Dioecesis Marabensis), which belongs to the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Belém do Pará.
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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.