Diocese of Marajó
Maraien(sis)
Suffragan territorial prelature · Latin Church · Marajó, Brazil
Marajo is a Latin Church territorial prelature centered in Soure, Para state, Brazil, erected in 1928 and suffragan to the Archdiocese of Belem do Para. Its current prelate is Bishop Jose Ionilton Lisboa de Oliveira, S.D.V., appointed in 2023.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan territorial prelature
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 14 April 1928
- Latin
- Maraien(sis)
- Patron
- Our Lady of Consolation
- Annuario code
- 001000280
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 213,480
- Population
- 385,550
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 55.4%
- Priests
- 29
- Catholics per priest
- 7,361
- Extent
- 86,477 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 2.5
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
- José Ionilton Lisboa de Oliveira
- Born
- 9 March 1962
- Birthplace
- Araci
- Institute
- SOCIETÀ DIVINE VOCAZIONI (PADRI VOCAZIONISTI)
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 Prelaticia Nossa Senhora da Consolacao stands in Marajó, 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 MarabáMarabá
- 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
Erected on April 14, 1928 from territory of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Belém do Pará, the Territorial Prelature of Marajó (Latin: Praelatura Territorialis Maraiensis) is seated in the city of Marajó within that same ecclesiastical province in Brazil.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Rua Manoel de Souza 370, Pedreirinha-Marituba, PA, Brasile
- Telephone
- [091]98101-0717
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.