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Diocese of Floriano

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Floriano is a suffragan Latin diocese in the ecclesiastical province of Teresina, in northeastern Brazil.

Statistics
As per 2014, it pastorally served 162,100 Catholics (80.0% of 202,600 total) on 48,559 km2 in 29 parishes and 3 missions with 29 priests (14 diocesan, 15 religious), 31 lay religious (15 brothers, 16 sisters) and 7 seminarians. == History ==
History
• 27 February 2008: Established as Diocese of Floriano, on territory split off from the Diocese of Oeiras–Floriano (with its incumbent transferred as first bishop). ==Episcopal ordinaries==
Episcopal ordinaries
(all Roman rite) ;Suffragan Bishops of Floriano • Augusto Alves da Rocha (27 February 2008 - retired 17 March 2010), previously Bishop of Picos (Brazil) (1975.05.23 – 2001.10.24), Bishop of mother see Roman Catholic Diocese of Oeiras–Floriano (Brazil) (2001.10.24 – 2008.02.27) • Valdemir Ferreira dos Santos (17 March 2010 – 4 May 2016), next Bishop of Amargosa (Brazil) (2016.05.04 – ...) • Edivalter Andrade (2017.03.29 – ...), no previous prelature. == See also ==
Sources and external links
• GCatholic.org, with Google map & satellite photo - data for all sections • Catholic Hierarchy
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