Diocese of Palmares, Brazil

Continent: South America

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Palmares / Palmopolitan(us) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Olinda e Recife

Depends on: Dicastery for Bishops

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Celebrations

Patron Saint: Sagrado Coração de Jesus

Liturgical Calendar (National) 📅

History

1962.01.13: Established as Diocese of Palmares / Palmopolitan(us) (Latin) (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Olinda e Recife and Diocese of Garanhuns and became suffragan of Olinda e Recife)

Present Prelates

Bishop (2021.06.09 – ...):

Bishop Fernando Barbosa dos Santos, C.M. (57)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Palmares (Roman Rite)

Bishop Fernando Barbosa dos Santos, C.M. (57)
(2021.06.09 – ...)

Bishop of Palmares (Brazil)

Servo de Cristo para missão

Born:	1967.03.05 (Sertânia, PE, Brazil)
Ordained Priest:	1996.01.20
Consecrated Bishop:	2014.08.28

Bishop-Prelate of Tefé (Brazil) (2014.05.14 – 2021.06.09)

Bishop of Palmares (Brazil) (2021.06.09 – ...)

Bishop Henrique Soares da Costa
(2014.03.19 – 2020.07.18)

In Christo pascere

Born:	1963.03.11 (Penedo, AL, Brazil)
Ordained Priest:	1991.08.15
Consecrated Bishop:	2009.06.19
Died:	2020.07.18 (Recife, PE, Brazil † 57)

Priest of Maceió (Brazil) (1991.08.15 – 2009.04.01)

Titular Bishop of Acufida (2009.04.01 – 2014.03.19)

Auxiliary Bishop of Aracaju (Brazil) (2009.04.01 – 2014.03.19)

Bishop of Palmares (Brazil) (2014.03.19 – 2020.07.18)

Died of COVID-19.

Bishop Genival Saraiva de França (86)
(2000.07.12 – 2014.03.19)

Bishop emeritus of Palmares (Brazil)

Pro Hominibus Constituitur

Born:	1938.04.03 (Alcantil, PB, Brazil)
Ordained Priest:	1965.01.01
Consecrated Bishop:	2000.09.23

Priest of Campina Grande (Brazil) (1965.01.01 – 2000.07.12)

Bishop of Palmares (Brazil) (2000.07.12 – 2014.03.19)

Apostolic Administrator of Paraíba (Brazil) (2016.07.06 – 2017.03.08)

Bishop Acácio Rodrigues Alves
(1962.07.11 – 2000.07.12)

Unum in Christo

Born:	1925.04.09 (Brazil)
Ordained Priest:	1949.03.12
Consecrated Bishop:	1962.09.16
Died:	2010.08.24 († 85)

Bishop of Palmares (Brazil) (1962.07.11 – 2000.07.12)

Former Prelates

Coadjutor Bishop: Bishop José Doth de Oliveira (1989.12.23 – 1991.12.18)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Catedral Nossa Senhora da Conceição dos Montes, Palmares, Pernambuco

Churches by City (25)

Garanhuns (←), Caruaru (↖), Olinda e Recife (↗), Maceió (↓)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 3,797 km²

Population: 261,224 Catholics (54.8% of 476,465 total)

Pastoral Centres: 25 parishes

Personnel: 34 priests (diocesan), 6 deacons, 68 religious (68 sisters), 19 seminarians