Diocese of Bom Jesus do Gurguéia
Dioecesis Boni Iesu a Gurgueia
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Location | |
Country | Brazil |
Ecclesiastical province | Teresina |
Statistics | |
Area | 53,583 km2 (20,689 sq mi) |
Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2004) 161,532 143,832 (89.0%) |
Information | |
Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
Rite | Roman Rite |
Established | 18 June 1920 (104 years ago) |
Cathedral | Catedral de Nossa Senhora das Mercês |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Bishop | Marcos Antônio Tavoni |
Metropolitan Archbishop | Jacinto Furtado de Brito Sobrinho |
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.
Its cathedral episcopal see is the Marian Catedral de Nossa Senhora das Mercês, located in the city of Bom Jesus, Piauí.
(all Roman Rite)
9°04′20″S 44°21′23″W / 9.0721°S 44.3563°W / -9.0721; -44.3563
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