Diocese of Itabuna
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Itabuna is a Latin suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of São Salvador da Bahia in Bahia state, eastern Brazil.
Its cathedral episcopal see is Catedral São José, dedicated to Saint Joseph, in the city of Itabuna.
Statistics
As per 2914, it pastorally served 608,000 Catholics on 14,533 km² in 33 parishes and 85 missions with 42 priests, 4 deacons, 48 lay religious and 5 seminarians.History
- Established on 7 November 1978 as Diocese of Itabuna, on territory split off from the Diocese of Ilhéus.
- Lost territory on 1996.06.12 to establish the Diocese of Eunápolis.
Episcopal ordinaries
;Suffragan Bishops of Itabuna- Homero Leite Meira, next Bishop of Irecê, died 2014
- Eliseu Maria Gomes de Oliveira, Carmelite Order ; previously Titular Bishop of Tituli in Numidia as Auxiliary Bishop of Maceió, then Bishop of Caetité ; died 2002
- Paulo Lopes de Faria ; previously Titular Bishop of Thelepte as Auxiliary Bishop of Niterói ; later Coadjutor Archbishop of Diamantina, succeeding as Metropolitan Archbishop of Diamantina ; died 2009
- Czesław Stanula, Redemptorists ; previously Bishop of Floresta ; died 2020
- Carlos Alberto dos Santos, previously Bishop of Teixeira de Freitas–Caravelas .