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Diocese of Teixeira de Freitas–Caravelas

Taxen(sis)-Carabellen(sis)

Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Teixeira de Freitas–Caravelas, Brazil

Latin rite diocese in Bahia, Brazil, erected in 1962 as the Diocese of Caravelas and renamed in 1983. It is a suffragan of São Salvador da Bahia. Dom Aldemiro Sena dos Santos was appointed by Pope Leo XIV on February 4, 2026 and installed as the 5th bishop on April 7, 2026.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
1962
Latin
Taxen(sis)-Carabellen(sis)
Patron
Saint Peter
Annuario code
001003191

The see in figures

Catholics
292,000
Population
364,720
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
80.1%
Priests
42
Catholics per priest
6,952
Extent
18,574 km²
Catholics per km²
16

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
Aldemiro Sena 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 São Pedro stands in Teixeira de Freitas–Caravelas, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

Its co-cathedral is Co-Catedral Santo Antônio.

On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.

The province of São Salvador da Bahia

A suffragan of Archdiocese of São Salvador da Bahia.

The sees of this province:

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

History

Spanning the cities of Teixeira de Freitas and Caravelas, this diocese (Latin: Dioecesis Taxensis-Carabellensis) belongs to the ecclesiastical province of São Salvador da Bahia in Brazil.

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Sources

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.