Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. XI, 1953 Ecclesiastical hierarchy Patriarchates, archdioceses, dioceses, suppressed dioceses

Sobrai, Diocese of

SOBRAI, DIOCESI DI

By Virginio Battezzati

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Also known as: Diocese of Sobral; Latin: Dioecesis Sobraliensis; Portuguese: Sobral

SOBRAI, Diocese of. - City and diocese in the State of Ceará, in Brazil.

It has an area of 48,200 sq km with a population of 783,981 inhabitants, of whom 755,342 are Catholics. It has 33 parishes, with 53 diocesan priests and 7 regulars. It has a seminary, one male religious community and 4 female ones (Ann. Pont. 1953, p. 404).

The diocese was created by Benedict XV on 10 Nov. 1915 with the apostolic constitution Catholicae religionis bonum, by detaching the western part of the diocese of Fortaleza, which was at the same time elevated to metropolitan dignity and of which the diocese of S. became a suffragan. Its titular patron, of both the diocese and the cathedral, is Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception.

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BIBL.: AAS, 7 (1915), p. 571; O Brasil Católico 1947, Juiz de Fora 1947, pp. 418 ff.

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XI (1953), col. 824.

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Battezzati, Virginio. “Sobrai, diocesi di.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XI, col. 824. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953. https://azioneromana.com/article/sobrai-diocesi-di.

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Battezzati, Virginio. “Sobrai, diocesi di.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XI, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953, col. 824. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/sobrai-diocesi-di.

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  author    = {Battezzati, Virginio},
  title     = {Sobrai, diocesi di},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {XI},
  pages     = {824},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1953},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/sobrai-diocesi-di}
}

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