Roman Catholic Diocese of Imperatriz

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Imperatriz (Latin: Dioecesis Imperatricis) is a suffragan Latin diocese in the Ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan of São Luís do Maranhão in northeastern Brazil.

Diocese of Imperatriz

Dioecesis Imperatricis
Location
Country Brazil
Ecclesiastical provinceSão Luís do Maranhão
Statistics
Area22,659 km2 (8,749 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics (including non-members)
(as of 2004)
470,000
376,000 (80.0%)
Information
RiteLatin Rite
Established27 June 1987 (33 years ago)
CathedralCatedral Nossa Senhora da Fátima
Current leadership
PopeFrancis
BishopGilberto Pastana de Oliveira
Metropolitan ArchbishopJosé Belisário da Silva, O.F.M.

Its cathedral episcopal see is Catedral Nossa Senhora da Fátima, dedicated to Our Lady of Fatima, in the city of Imperatriz, Maranhão state.

History

  • Established on 27 June 1987 as Diocese of Imperatriz, on territory split off from the Diocese of Carolina.

Statistics

As per 2014, it pastorally served 414,000 Catholics (79.9% of 518,000 total) on 25,958 km² in 27 parishes and 2 missions with 43 priests (29 diocesan, 14 religious), 1 deacon, 65 lay religious (19 brothers, 46 sisters) and 7 seminarians .

Bishops

(all Roman rite)

Episcopal ordinaries

Suffragan Bishops of Imperatriz
  • Affonso Felippe Gregory (1987.07.16 – retired 2005.08.03), also President of Caritas Internationalis (1991 – 1999); died 2008; previously Titular Bishop of Drusiliana (1979.08.02 – 1987.07.16) as Auxiliary Bishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) (1979.08.02 – 1987.07.16)
  • Gilberto Pastana de Oliveira (2005.08.03 – 2017.04.19), also Coadjutor Bishop of Crato (Brazil) (2016.05.18 – 2016.12.28), succeeding as Bishop of Crato (2016.12.28 – ...)
  • Vilson Basso, Dehonians (S.C.I.) (2017.04.19 – ...), previously Bishop of Caxias do Maranhão (Brazil) (2010.03.19 – 2017.04.19).

Other priest of this diocese who became bishops

  • Francisco Lima Soares, appointed Bishop of Carolina, Maranhão in 2018

See also


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