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

Penedo, Diocese of

PENEDO, DIOCESI DI

By Virginio Battezzati

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PENEDO, Diocese of. - City and diocese in the State of Alagoas in Brazil.

It has an area of 16,643 sq km with a population of 454,000 inhabitants, of whom 450,000 are Catholics. It has

18 parishes, with 22 diocesan priests and 15 regulars, a seminary, 3 male religious communities and 3 female ones (Ann. Pont., 1952, p. 314).

The diocese was created by Pope Benedict XV with the apostolic constitution Catholicae Ecclesiae cura of 3 April 1916, by dismemberment of the diocese of Alagoas and by elevating to cathedral the mother church dedicated to Our Lady of the Rosary existing in P. The first bishop was Msgr. Giona de Araujo Batinga (1916-40). The diocese is a suffragan of Maceió.

Bibliography2 works

BIBL.: AAS, 8 (1916), pp. 169-71; G. B. Lehmann, O Brasil Católico 1947, Juiz de Fora 1947, pp. 275-79.

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IX (1952), coll. 1101–1102.

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Battezzati, Virginio. “Penedo, diocesi di.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IX, coll. 1101–1102. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952. https://azioneromana.com/article/penedo-diocesi-di.

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Battezzati, Virginio. “Penedo, diocesi di.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IX, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952, coll. 1101–1102. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/penedo-diocesi-di.

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@incollection{ec9_penedo_diocesi_di,
  author    = {Battezzati, Virginio},
  title     = {Penedo, diocesi di},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {IX},
  pages     = {1101--1102},
  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/penedo-diocesi-di}
}

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