CARRUARÙ, DIOCESI DI - Enciclopedia Cattolica, Vol. III, p. 562

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

CARRUARÚ, DIOCESE OF. – A city and diocese in Brazil, in the State of Pernambuco, suffragan of Olinda and Recife, erected by Pope Pius XII on 7 August 1948 by the apostolic constitution *Quae maiori*, detaching eleven parishes from the archdiocese of Olinda and Recife and one parish from the diocese of Nazareth.

Article illustration — Cartoon – C. preparatory study for a painting by Niccolò Alunno (15th century). Studies of angels with a saint’s head superimposed, reworked in openwork – Berlin, museum.

Also part of the parish of Riacho das Almas was taken from the diocese of Pesqueira.
The new diocese has its see in C.; the church of Our Lady of Sorrows has been elevated to cathedral status. Provision has been made for the establishment of a small seminary and for the sending of one or two students to the Pontifical Brazilian College in Rome.

Bibl.: AAS, 41 (1949), pp. 311–13. Enrico Josi