NITERÓI, Diocese of. - City and diocese in the State of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). It borders on the dioceses of Barra do Piraí, Valença, Rio de Janeiro and Juiz de Fora.

It has a population of over 700,000 inhabitants (1947) with 37 parishes served, besides by diocesan priests, by 7 religious communities (Premonstratensians, Franciscans, Jesuits, Lazarists, Salesians, Fathers of the Little Work of Divine Providence and of St. Francis de Sales) and 16 female religious communities; furthermore a minor seminary.

The diocese was created by Leo XIII with the bull Ad universas orbis Ecclesias of 27 April 1892 with the episcopal see at N. On 16 July 1895, however, the episcopal see was transferred to the city of Campos, whence on 16 July 1897 it was brought to Petropolis where it remained until 1907; from 1908 the residence was fixed again at N. The first bishop was Msgr. F. del Rego Maia (1893-1902). Patroness of the diocese is Our Lady Mary Help of Christians; titular of the Cathedral is St. John the Baptist.

Bibliography

BIBL.: G. B. Lehmann, O Brasil Católico 1947, Juiz de Fora 1947, pp. 245-49.

Virginio Battezzati

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