BARRA DO RIO GRANDE, DIOCESE OF
In Brazil, in the State of Bahia, erected as a diocese on 20 October 1913 with 19 parishes from the archdiocese of S. Salvatore of Bahia, of which it became a suffragan see. The cathedral is dedicated to St Francis of Assisi, patron of the diocese. There are about 300,000 Catholics, divided into 20 parishes.
BIBL.: AAS, 5 (1913), p. 548; 7 (1915), p. 328; 27 (1935), p. 273; J. B. Lehmann, O Braut Católico, Guiz de Fora 1947, p. 27-29.