VALENÇA DO BRAZIL (VALENÇA), DIOCESE OF. - Diocese in the State of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). Episcopal residence in Marques de Valença.

It has an area of 5,199 sq km, with a population of 178,852 inhabitants, of whom 169,000 are Catholics. It has 17 parishes, with a minor seminary, 12 diocesan priests and 15 regulars, 6 male religious communities and 13 female ones.

The diocese was erected by Pope Pius XI with the apostolic constitution Ex Apostolico officio of 27 March 1925, by detaching a group of parishes from the dioceses of Barra do Rio Grande and of Niterói, raising to cathedral status the parish church dedicated to the Assumption in the city of V., chosen as the episcopal see. The diocese is a suffragan of S. Sebastiano of Rio de Janeiro. Its first bishop was Msgr. Andrea de Arcoverde Albuquerque Cavalcanti, until 1936.

Bibliography3 works

BIBL.: AAS, 17 (1925), pp. 516-19; Ann. Pont. 1933, p. 441; O Brasil católico 1947, Juiz de Fora 1947, p. 453 ff.

Virginio Battezzati

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