Diocese of Óbidos
Obiden(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Óbidos, Brazil
The Diocese of Óbidos is a Latin Rite diocese in Pará, Brazil. It was created as a territorial prelature on 10 April 1957 and elevated to a diocese on 9 November 2011, becoming a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Santarém in 2019.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 1957
- Latin
- Obiden(sis)
- Patron
- Saint Anne
- Annuario code
- 001002440
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 167,379
- Population
- 201,063
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 83.2%
- Priests
- 32
- Catholics per priest
- 5,231
- Extent
- 182,960 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.9
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
- Bernardo Johannes Bahlmann
- Born
- 10 December 1960
- Birthplace
- Visbek
- Institute
- ORDINE FRANCESCANO FRATI MINORI
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
Cathedral of St. Anne stands in Óbidos, 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 Santarém
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Santarém.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of Alto Xingu–TucumãAlto Xingu–Tucumã
- Diocese of Xingu–AltamiraXingu–Altamira
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Seated in the city of Óbidos, this Roman Catholic diocese (Latin: Dioecesis Obidensis) was a suffragan of the ecclesiastical province of Belém do Pará in Brazil until 6 November 2019, when it passed to the Archdiocese of Santarém as suffragan.
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The see's own website · 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.