Circunscrições eclesiásticas católicas no Brasil: articulações entre igreja, estado e sociedade

Abstract

This collection was conceived from the need to gather a set of works on the creation and expansion of Catholic ecclesiastical circumscriptions in Brazil, to analyze the changes and conceptual displacements, to provide subsidies for the understanding of the current scenario and to foster research on the thematic. Ecclesiastical circumscriptions are territorial and administrative divisions of the Catholic Church whose objective is to organize and make the management and control of populations and territory more effective. Its paradigmatic models are parishes, missions, apostolic prefectures, prelates, dioceses and archdioceses.