Diocese of Campina Grande


The Roman Catholic Diocese of Campina Grande is a suffragan Latin diocese in the ecclesiastical province of Paraíba, in northeastern Brazil.
Its cathedral episcopal see is Catedral Nossa Senhora da Conceição, dedicated to the Immaculate Conception, in the city of Campina Grande.
It is vacant.

History

Established on May 14, 1949, as the Diocese of Campina Grande, on territory split off from the Archdiocese of Paraíba, its Metropolitan since. It lost territory on January 17, 1959, to establish the Diocese of Patos.

Statistics

, it pastorally serves 807,000 Catholics in in 52 parishes with 92 priests, 1 deacon, 131 lay religious and 25 seminarians.

Bishops

Episcopal ordinaries

; Suffragan Bishops of Campina Grande

Coadjutor bishop

  • Matias Patrício de Macêdo

Other priests of this diocese who became bishop