Diocese of Palmares
Palmopolitan(us)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Palmares, Brazil
The Diocese of Palmares is a Latin Church suffragan diocese in the state of Pernambuco, erected in 1962. It is part of the ecclesiastical province of Olinda e Recife and led by Bishop Fernando Barbosa dos Santos, C.M., who took office in 2021.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 13 January 1962
- Latin
- Palmopolitan(us)
- Patron
- Our Lady of the Conception
- Annuario code
- 001002521
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 261,224
- Population
- 423,589
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 61.7%
- Priests
- 34
- Catholics per priest
- 7,683
- Extent
- 3,797 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 69
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
- Fernando Barbosa dos Santos
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 dos Montes stands in Palmares, 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:
- Diocese of Afogados da IngazeiraAfogados da Ingazeira
- Diocese of CaruaruCaruaru
- Diocese of FlorestaFloresta
- Diocese of GaranhunsGaranhuns
- Diocese of NazaréNazaré
- Archdiocese of Olinda e RecifeOlinda e Recife
- Diocese of PesqueiraPesqueira
- Diocese of PetrolinaPetrolina
- Diocese of SalgueiroSalgueiro
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
The city of Palmares is the seat of this diocese (Latin: Dioecesis Palmopolitana), part of the ecclesiastical province of Olinda e Recife in Brazil.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- C.P. 77, Rua da Conceição 1198, 55540-000 Palmares, PE, Brasil
- Telephone
- [081]98178-7893
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.