Caxias, Maranhão

Caxias on the map of Brazil

Caxias is a municipality in the state of Maranhão in Brazil. In the village live 148 072 inhabitants.

History

Caxias was founded on June 5, 1836. On 22 July 1939, the Diocese of Caxias do Maranhão by Pope Pius XII was. built with the Apostolic Constitution of cessions of territory of the Archdiocese of São Luís do Maranhão and this is a suffragan. Since 1996, a partnership between the Catholic parish of St. George in Münsterland Saerbeck and the parish of Nossa Senhora de Nazareth in Caxias.

Mayor

The place was ruled by the following mayors since 1948.

• Eugênio Barros (1948-1950)
• Severino Dias Carneiro Sobrinho (1951-1955)
• Numa Pompilio Baima Pereira (1961-1966)
• Aluísio de Abreu Lobo (1978-1983)
• José Ferreira de Castro (1984-1988)
• Sebastião Lopes de Sousa (1989-1993)
• Paulo Marinho (1994-1997)
• Eziquio Barros Filho (1997-2000)
• Márcia Serejo Marinho (2001-2004)
• Humberto Araújo Coutinho Ivar (2005 -)

Sons and daughters of the town

• Antônio Gonçalves Dias (1823-1864), Brazilian poet
• Aline de Lima (born 1978 ), Brazilian singer, lyricist and composer
• Henrique Coelho Neto Maximiano (1864-1934), Brazilian writer
• Tita do Rêgo Silva ( born 1959 ), a Brazilian artist living in Germany