Diocese of São Raimundo Nonato
The Roman Catholic Diocese of São Raimundo Nonato is a Latin suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Teresina, in northeastern Brazil's Piauí state.
Its cathedral episcopal see is Catedral São Raimundo, located in the city of São Raimundo Nonato.
In 2010, the diocese had an area of 39,316 square kilometres; a total population of 193,000; a Catholic population of 174,000; 23 priests; and 42 religious.
History
- Established on 17 December 1960 as Territorial Prelature of São Raimundo Nonato, on territory split off from the Territorial Prelature of Bom Jesus do Piauí
- Promoted on 3 October 1981 as Diocese of São Raimundo Nonato.
Ordinaries
;Territorial Prelates of São Raimundo Nonato- Amadeu González Ferreiros, Mercederians, Titular Bishop of Metræ
- Cândido Lorenzo González, O. de M., Titular Bishop of Skradin
- Cândido Lorenzo González, O. de M.
- Pedro Brito Guimarães, later Metropolitan Archbishop of Palmas
- João Santos Cardoso, later Bishop of Bom Jesus da Lapa
- Eduardo Zielski
- Ronilton Souza de Araújo