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Diocese of Nazaré

Nazaren(sis) in Brasilia

The Diocese of Nazaré is a Latin Rite diocese seated in Nazaré da Mata, Pernambuco, Brazil, erected on 2 August 1918 from the Archdiocese of Olinda e Recife, of which it is a suffragan.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
2 August 1918
Latin
Nazaren(sis) in Brasilia
Patron
Nuestra Señora de la Inmaculada Concepción
Annuario code
001002365

The see in figures

Catholics
768,261
Population
904,261
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
85.0%
Priests
81
Catholics per priest
9,485
Extent
5,986 km²
Catholics per km²
128

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
Francisco de Assis Dantas de Lucena

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 Conceição stands in Nazaré, 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 Olinda e Recife

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Olinda e Recife.

The sees of this province:

On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.

History

Established on August 2, 1918 as the Diocese of Nazaré from territory of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Olinda e Recife, this see (Latin: Dioecesis Nazarensis in Brasilia) is located in the city of Nazaré da Mata within that same Brazilian province.

How to reach it

Diocesan offices
Cúria Diocesana, Praça Herculano Bandeira 35, 55800-000 Nazaré da Mata, PE, Brasil
Telephone and fax
[081]3633-1009

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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Sources

Wikipedia

Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.