PINHEIRO - Facade of the church in colonial style - Alcantara.
PINHEIRO. - City and nullius prelature in the State of Maranhão in Brazil.
The territory of the prelature extends for 44,463 sq km between the bay of São Marcos on the Atlantic and the Rio Garupy. It has a population of 169,820 inhabitants, of whom 140,000 are Catholics. It has 8 parishes served by 1 diocesan priest and 10 regulars, 4 male religious communities (Ann. Pont., 1951, p. 632). The prelature was created by Pope Pius XII with the apostolic constitution Ad maius Christifidelium of 22 July 1939 by dismemberment of the archdiocese of S. Luigi del Maranhão and of the nullius prelature of S. Giuseppe de Grajahù, elevating to prelatical rank and dignity the church dedicated to St. Ignatius of Loyola existing in the city of P. The prelature is a suffragan of S. Luigi del Maranhão. In the city of Alcantara, formerly the seat of the Capitania di Cuma, the church of the Carmine is noteworthy.
Bibliography2 worksAAS, 32 (1940), pp. 112-14; G. B. Lehmann, O Brasil católico 1947, Juiz de Fora 1947, p. 479.
Battezzati, Virginio. “Pinheiro.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IX, col. 1486. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952. https://azioneromana.com/article/pinheiro.
MLA
Battezzati, Virginio. “Pinheiro.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IX, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952, col. 1486. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/pinheiro.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec9_pinheiro,
author = {Battezzati, Virginio},
title = {Pinheiro},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {IX},
pages = {1486},
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/pinheiro}
}
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