Diocese of Oeiras
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Oeiras is a Latin suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of Teresina in northeastern Brazil.
Its cathedral episcopal see is Catedral Nossa Senhora da Vitória, dedicated to Our Lady of Victory, in the city of Oeiras in the Brazilian state of Piauí.
Statistics
As per 2014, it pastorally served 125,000 Catholics on 15,096 km² in 20 parishes with 20 priests, 17 lay religious and 6 seminarians.History
- Established on 16 December 1944 as Diocese of Oeiras, on territory split off from the Diocese of Piaui
- Lost territory on 1974.10.28 to establish the Diocese of Picos
- Renamed on 8 December 1977 as Diocese of Oeiras–Floriano
- Renamed back 27 February 2008 as Diocese of Oeiras, having gained territory from its Metropolitan Archdiocese of Teresina and from Diocese of São Raimundo Nonato, but having lost territory to establish the Diocese of Floriano, to which see the incumbent transferred
Bishops
Episcopal ordinaries
;Suffragan Bishops of Oeiras- Francisco Expedito Lopes, next Bishop of Garanhuns
- Raimundo de Castro e Silva, previously Titular Bishop of Eluza as Auxiliary Bishop of Teresina ; later Titular Bishop of Uzalis as Auxiliary Bishop of Fortaleza
- Edilberto Dinkelborg, Friars Minor
- Edilberto Dinkelborg, O.F.M.
- Fernando Panico, Sacred Heart Missionaries, next Bishop of Crato
- Augusto Alves da Rocha ; previously Bishop of Picos ; later Bishop of daughter see Floriano
- Juarez Sousa Da Silva, next Coadjutor Bishop of Parnaíba, succeeding as Bishop of Parnaíba
- Edilson Soares Nobre
Other priest of this diocese who became bishop
- Pedro Brito Guimarães, appointed Bishop of São Raimundo Nonato, Piauí in 2002