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Type of Jurisdiction: Diocese
Erected:27 March 1925
Metropolitan: Archdiocese ofSão Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro
Depends on: Dicastery forBishops
Rite: Latin (or Roman)
State: Rio de Janeiro
Country:Brazil
Square Kilometers: 3,996 (1,543 Square Miles)
Description: Comendador Levy Gasparian, Miguel Pereira, Paraíba do Sul, Paty do Alferes, Rio das Flores, Sapucaia, Três Rios, Valença, and Vassouras
Conference Region:Leste 1
Official Web Site:https://diocesedevalenca.org
Mailing Address: Residencia Episcopal, Praca Visconde do Rio Preto 375, 27600-000 Valenca, RJ, Brazil
Telephone: (024)2452-0207

Past and Present Ordinaries

AndréArcoverde de Albuquerque Cavalcanti † (1 May1925 Appointed - 8 Aug1936 Appointed, Bishop ofTaubaté, Sao Paulo)
Renéde Pontes † (13 Oct1938 Appointed - 2 Apr1940 Died)
Rodolfo das Mercésde Oliveira Pena † (3 Jan1942 Appointed - 9 Dec1960 Resigned)
JoséCosta Campos † (9 Dec1960 Appointed - 26 Mar1979 Appointed, Bishop ofDivinópolis, Minas Gerais)
AmauryCastanho † (30 Nov1979 Appointed - 3 May1989 Appointed, Coadjutor Bishop ofJundiaí, Sao Paulo)
Elias James JohnManning, O.F.M. Conv. † (14 Mar1990 Appointed - 12 Feb2014 Retired)
NelsonFrancelino Ferreira (12 Feb 2014 Appointed - )

Date	Event	From	To
27 March 1925	Erected	Diocese ofBarra do Piraí (Besengano, Conservatória, Encruzilhada, Ipiabas, Miguel Pereira, Paraíba do Sul, Paty do Alferes, Rio Bonito, Rio das Flores, Sapucaia, Três Rios, Valença, and Vassouras) Diocese ofNiterói (Nictheroy) (Carmo and Sumidouro)	Diocese of Valença (erected)
26 March 1960	Territory Lost	Diocese ofCampos (Casimiro de Abreu, Conceição de Macabu, Macaé, Santa Maria Madalena, São Sebastião do Alto, Trajano de Moráis, and parts of Cordeiro) Diocese ofNiterói (Nictheroy) (Bom Jardim, Cachoeiras de Macacu, Cantagalo, Duas Barras, Itaocara, Nova Friburgo, and parts of Cordeiro) Diocese of Valença (Carmo and Sumidouro)	Diocese ofNova Friburgo (erected)
13 June 1960	Territory Lost	Diocese of Valença (Ipiabas)	Diocese ofBarra do Piraí

Year	Catholics	Total Population	Percent Catholic	Diocesan Priests	Religious Priests	Total Priests	Catholics Per Priest	Permanent Deacons	Male Religious	Female Religious	Parishes	Source
1950	150,000	151,000	99.3%	10	12	22	6,818		20	110	17	ap1951
1965	40,000	180,000	22.2%	18	14	32	1,250			212	17	ap1967
1968	120,000			15		15	8,000			131	18	ap1971
1976	180,000	225,000	80.0%	13	12	25	7,200		12	126	18	ap1977
1980	208,000	235,000	88.5%	13		13	16,000	1	1	130	22	ap1981
1990	259,000	286,000	90.6%	12	11	23	11,260		11	78	24	ap1991
1999	232,300	333,500	69.7%	13	9	22	10,559		10	100	26	ap2000
2000	252,306	354,451	71.2%	15	10	25	10,092		11	80	26	ap2001
2001	243,080	353,547	68.8%	13	10	23	10,568		11	105	26	ap2002
2002	244,830	348,200	70.3%	12	10	22	11,128		11	110	26	ap2003
2003	222,435	296,580	75.0%	11	11	22	10,110		12	105	26	ap2004
2004	247,550	330,358	74.9%	12	10	22	11,252		14	103	26	ap2005
2010	267,500	369,000	72.5%	15	11	26	10,288		11	80	26	ap2011
2014	279,000	386,000	72.3%	18	11	29	9,620		16	71	26	ap2015
2017	248,539	389,240	63.9%	21	8	29	8,570		16	64	26	ap2018
2020	253,900	398,120	63.8%	19	9	28	9,067		11	79	26	ap2021
2022	258,000	404,000	63.9%	24	8	32	8,062		14	37	28	ap2023