Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. IX, 1952 Ecclesiastical hierarchy Patriarchates, archdioceses, dioceses, suppressed dioceses

Oliveira, Diocese of

OLIVEIRA, DIOCESI DI

By Virginio Battezzati

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OLIVEIRA, Diocese of. - City and diocese in the State of Minas Gerais in Brazil.

It has an area of 6,887 sq km with 198,000 Catholic inhabitants. It has 17 parishes served by 17 diocesan priests; it has 5 female religious communities, 5 institutes of education for boys with 390 pupils; 3 institutes of education for girls with 644 pupils; 14 charitable and welfare institutes with 2,386 residents.

The diocese was created by Pope Pius XII by detaching 16 parishes from the diocese of Belo Horizonte, of which it is a suffragan, with the apostolic constitution Quo uberiores of Dec. 20, 1941. The first bishop is the current Msgr. Giuseppe Medeiros Leite.

Bibliography3 works

BIBL.: AAS, 34 (1942), pp. 121-23; Ann. Pont., 1951, p. 296; G. B. Lehmann, O Brasil católico, Juiz de Fora 1947, pp. 259-61.

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IX (1952), col. 101.

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Battezzati, Virginio. “Oliveira, diocesi di.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IX, col. 101. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952. https://azioneromana.com/article/oliveira-diocesi-di.

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Battezzati, Virginio. “Oliveira, diocesi di.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IX, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952, col. 101. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/oliveira-diocesi-di.

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  author    = {Battezzati, Virginio},
  title     = {Oliveira, diocesi di},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {IX},
  pages     = {101},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1952},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/oliveira-diocesi-di}
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