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Roman Catholic Diocese of Bom Jesus do Gurguéia

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Country
  
Brazil

Sui iuris church
  
Latin Church

Ecclesiastical province
  
Teresina

Rite
  
Roman Rite

Area
  
53,583 km (20,689 sq mi)

Population - Total - Catholics
  
(as of 2004) 161,532 143,832 (89.0%)

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Bom Jesus do Gurguéia (Latin: Dioecesis Boni Iesu a Gurgueia) is a Latin suffragan diocese in the Ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archbishop of Teresina, in northeastern Brazil's Piauí state.

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Its cathedral episcopal see is the Marian Catedral de Nossa Senhora das Mercês, located in the city of Bom Jesus, Piauí.

History

  • Established on 18 June 1920 as Territorial Prelature of Bom Jesus do Piauí, on territory split off from the Diocese of Piaui
  • Lost territory on 1960.12.17 to establish the then Territorial Prelature of São Raimundo Nonato (later promoted to diocese)
  • Promoted on 3 October 1981 as Diocese of Bom Jesus do Gurguéia

    • Ordinaries

    (all Roman Rite)

    Territorial (Bishop-)Prelates of Bom Jesus do Piauí
  • Pedro Pascual Miguel y Martínez, Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy (Mercederians, O. de M.) (1924.12.18 – death 1926.05.05), Titular Bishop of Agathopolis (1924.12.18 – 1926.05.05)
  • Ramón Harrison Abello, O. de M. (1926.11.14 – retired 1928), Titular Bishop of Podalia (1926.11.14 – death 1949.08.09)
  • Inocéncio Lopez Santamaria, O. de M. (1930.08.01 – death 1958.03.09), Titular Bishop of Trebenna (1930.08.01 – 1958.03.09)
  • José Vázquez Díaz, O. de M. (1958.03.08 – 1981.10.03 see below), succeeded as former Coadjutor Bishop-Prelate of Bom Jesus do Piauí (1956.07.08 – 1958.03.08) & Titular Bishop of Usula (1956.07.08 – 1978.05.26)
  • Auxiliary Bishop Abel Alonso Núñez, O. de M. (1971.07.14 – 1976.03.24), Titular Bishop of Nicives (1971.07.14 – 1976.03.24); later Bishop of Campo Maior (Brazil) (1976.03.24 – retired 2000.02.02)
    • Suffragan Bishops of Bom Jesus do Gurguéia
  • José Vázquez Díaz, O. de M. (see above 1981.10.03 – retired 1989.03.01)
  • Ramón López Carrozas, O. de M. (1989.03.01 – retired 2014.01.15), succeeded as former Auxiliary Bishop of Bom Jesus do Gurguéia (1979.04.26 – 1989.03.01) & Titular Bishop of Ceramus (1979.04.26 – 1989.03.01)
  • Marcos Antônio Tavoni (2014.01.15 – ...)

    • References

    Roman Catholic Diocese of Bom Jesus do Gurguéia Wikipedia
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