PESQUEIRA, Diocese of. - City and diocese in the State of Pernambuco in Brazil.

It has an area of 35,000 sq km with a population of 392,887 inhabitants, of whom 392,000 are Catholics. It has 25 parishes served by 32 diocesan priests and 10 regulars, a seminary, 2 male religious communities and 4 female ones (Ann. Pont., 1952, p. 316).

The diocese was created by the blessed Pope Pius X on 5 April 1910 by dismemberment from Olinda and Recife, with its seat in Floresta. Benedict XV, by decree of 2 August 1918, transferred the seat to P. The diocese is a suffragan of Olinda and Recife. The first bishop was Msgr. A. Alvaro da Silva, later archbishop of Bahia. Pope Pius XI, by the apostolic constitution Dominici gregis of 20 November 1923, dismembered from the diocese of P. a part of its territory in order to create the new diocese of Petrolina (AAS, 16 [1924], pp. 216-18).

Bibliography

BIBL.: G. B. Lehmann, O Brasil Católico 1947, Juiz de Fora 1947, pp. 280-83.

Virginio Battezzati

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