Diocese of Floriano
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Floriano is a suffragan Latin diocese in the ecclesiastical province of Teresina, in northeastern Brazil.
Its cathedral episcopal see is Cathedral São Pedro de Alcântara, dedicated to Peter of Alcantara, in the city of Floriano, Piauí state.
Statistics
As per 2014, it pastorally served 162,100 Catholics on 48,559 km2 in 29 parishes and 3 missions with 29 priests, 31 lay religious and 7 seminarians.History
- 27 February 2008: Established as Diocese of Floriano, on territory split off from the Diocese of Oeiras–Floriano.
Episcopal ordinaries
;Suffragan Bishops of Floriano- Augusto Alves da Rocha, previously Bishop of Picos, Bishop of mother see Roman Catholic Diocese of Oeiras–Floriano
- Valdemir Ferreira dos Santos, next Bishop of Amargosa
- Edivalter Andrade, no previous prelature.