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Diocese of Uruguaiana Dioecesis Uruguaianensis | |
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Location | |
Country | Brazil |
Ecclesiastical province | Santa Maria |
Statistics | |
Area | 38,795 km2 (14,979 sq mi) |
Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2010) 467,000 348,000 (74.5%) |
Information | |
Denomination | Catholic Church |
Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
Rite | Roman Rite |
Established | 15 August 1910 (113 years ago) |
Cathedral | Catedral Senhora Sant’Ana |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Bishop | José Mário Scalon Angonese |
Metropolitan Archbishop | Hélio Adelar Rubert |
Map | |
Jurisdiction of the diocese. Metropolitan archdiocese in pink. | |
Website | |
Official website |
The Diocese of Uruguaiana (Latin : Dioecesis Uruguaianensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Santa Maria.
Its cathedra episcopal see is Catedral Senhora Sant’Ana, dedicated to St. Anne, in Uruguaiana.
As per 2014, it pastorally served 365,000 Catholics (74.5% of 490,000 total) on 35,439 km2 (13,683 sq mi) in 16 parishes and 286 missions with 26 priests (23 diocesan, 3 religious), 63 lay religious (9 brothers, 54 sisters) and 10 seminarians.
(all Brazilians and Latin rite)
It has had no auxiliary bishops.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Uruguayana". Catholic Encyclopedia . New York: Robert Appleton Company.
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