Roman Catholic Diocese of Campo Maior explained

Jurisdiction:	Diocese
Campo Maior
Latin:	Dioecesis Campi Maioris
Rite:	Latin Rite
Established:	12 June 1975 (years ago)
Area Km2:	27,943
Population:	329,856
Population As Of:	2006
Catholics:	304,234
Catholics Percent:	92.2
Metro Archbishop:	Jacinto Furtado de Brito Sobrinho
Bishop:	Francisco de Assis Gabriel dos Santos

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Campo Maior (Latin: Dioecesis Campi Maioris) is a Latin suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of Teresina, in northeastern Brazil's Piauí state.

Its cathedral episcopal see is Catedral Santo Antônio, dedicated to Saint Anthony, in the city of Campo Maior, Piauí.

History

Established 12 June 1975 as Diocese of Campo Maior on territories split off from the Diocese of Parnaíba and its Metropolitan Archdiocese of Teresina

Statistics

As per 2014, it pastorally served 354,000 Catholics (94.9% of 373,000 total) on 27,943 km² in 31 parishes and 419 missions with 35 priests (34 diocesan, 1 religious), 1 deacon, 23 lay religious (1 brother, 22 sisters) and 10 seminarians.

Bishops

(all Roman rite)

Episcopal ordinaries

Suffragan Bishops of Campo Maior

Abel Alonso Núñez, Mercederians (O. de M.) (1976.03.24 – retired 2000.02.02), previously Auxiliary Bishop of the then Territorial Prelature of Bom Jesus do Piauí (Brazil) (1971.07.14 – 1976.03.24) & Titular Bishop of Nicives (1971.07.14 – 1976.03.24)
Eduardo Zielski (2000.02.02 – 2016.03.02), next Bishop of São Raimundo Nonato, Piaui (2016.03.02 - present)
Francisco de Assis Gabriel dos Santos, Redemptorists (C.SS.R.) (2017.06.21 – ...), no previous prelature.

So far, the diocese has had no auxiliary bishop.

Other priest of this diocese who became bishop

Juarez Sousa Da Silva, appointed Bishop of Oeiras, Piaui in 2008

Sources and external links

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