Diocese of Petrolina
The Diocese of Petrolina is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Southern Brazil. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Olinda e Recife.
Its cathedra is in Catedral Sagrado Coração de Jesus e Cristo Rei, dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Christ the King, in the episcopal see of Petrolina in the state of Pernambuco.
History
- Established on 30 November 1923 as Diocese of Petrolina, on territory split off from the Diocese of Pesqueira
- Lost territories on 1964.02.15, to establish the Diocese of Floresta, and on 2010.06.16 to establish the Diocese of Salgueiro.
Statistics
, it pastorally served 350,500 Catholics on 16,260 km2 in 23 parishes and 2 missions with 25 priests, 28 lay religious and 18 seminarians.Episcopal Ordinaries
;Bishops of Petrolina- Antônio Malan, Salesians ; previously Titular Bishop of Amisus as Bishop-Prelate of Territorial Prelature of Registro do Araguaia
- Idílio José Soares : next Bishop of Santos, retired as Titular Bishop of Vegesela in Numidia
- Avelar Brandão Vilela ; later Metropolitan Archbishop of Teresina, Vice-President of National Conference of Bishops of Brazil, Second Vice-President of Latin American Episcopal Council, President of Latin American Episcopal Council, Vice-President of National Conference of Bishops of Brazil, Metropolitan Archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia, Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Bonifacio ed Alessio
- Antônio Campelo de Aragão, S.D.B., died 1988; previously Titular Bishop of Sesta as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Cuiaba
- Gerardo de Andrade Ponte : next Bishop of Patos, died 2006
- Paulo Cardoso da Silva, O. Carm.
- Manoel dos Reis de Farias, previously Bishop of Patos
- Francisco Canindé Palhano, previously Bishop of Bonfim .