Diocese of Balsas

Dioecesis Balsensis
Location
Country Brazil
Ecclesiastical provinceSão Luís do Maranhão
Statistics
Area66,025 km2 (25,492 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics
(as of 2006)
237,944
172,710 (72.6%)
Information
RiteLatin Rite
Established20 December 1954 (69 years ago)
Current leadership
PopeFrancis
BishopValentim Fagundes de Meneses, M.S.C.
Metropolitan ArchbishopJosé Belisário da Silva, O.F.M.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Balsas (Latin: Dioecesis Balsensis) is a diocese located in the city of Balsas in the Ecclesiastical province of São Luís do Maranhão in Brazil.

History

Bishops

Prelates of Santo Antônio de Balsas
  • Diego Parodi, M.C.C.I. (1959.05.09 – 1966)
  • Rino Carlesi, M.C.C.I. (1967.01.12[3] 1981.10.25)[2]
Bishops of Balsas
  • Rino Carlesi, M.C.C.I. (1981.10.25[2] – 1998.04.15)
  • Gianfranco Masserdotti, M.C.C.I. (1998.04.15 – 2006.09.17)
    • Coadjutor bishop 1995–1998
  • Enemésio Ângelo Lazzaris, F.D.P. (2007.12.12 – 2020.02.02)
  • Valentim Fagundes de Meneses, M.S.C. (2020.07.29 – present)
Other priest of this diocese who became bishop
  • Sebastião Bandeira Coêlho, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Manaus, Amazonas in 2004

References

  1. Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. XLVII. 1955. pp. 206–8. Retrieved 30 July 2020.
  2. 1 2 3 Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. LXXIII. 1981. p. 737. Retrieved 30 July 2020.
  3. Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. LIX. 1967. pp. 359, 745. Retrieved 30 July 2020.

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