Diocese of Caxias do Maranhão Dioecesis Caxiensis in Maragnano | |
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Location | |
Country | Brazil |
Ecclesiastical province | São Luís do Maranhão |
Statistics | |
Area | 34,449 km2 (13,301 sq mi) |
Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2004) 720,000 690,000 (95.8%) |
Information | |
Rite | Latin Rite |
Established | 22 July 1939 (84 years ago) |
Cathedral | Catedral de Nossa Senhora dos Remérios |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Bishop | Sebastião Lima Duarte |
Metropolitan Archbishop | José Belisário da Silva, O.F.M. |
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Caxias do Maranhão ( Latin: Dioecesis Caxiensis in Maragnano) is a suffragan Latin diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan of São Luís do Maranhão in northeastern Brazil.
Its cathedral episcopal see is Catedral de Nossa Senhora dos Remédios, dedicated to the Virgin of Los Remedios, in the city of Caxias (do Maranhão), in Maranhão state.
As per 2015, it pastorally served 825,000 Catholics (96.9% of 851,000 total) on 34,449 km² in 23 parishes and 135 missions with 25 priests (23 diocesan, 2 religious), 14 deacons, 48 lay religious (6 brothers, 42 sisters) and 15 seminarians.
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