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Diocese of Araçatuba

Arassatuben(sis)

The Diocese of Araçatuba is a Latin Church diocese in São Paulo state, Brazil, erected on March 23, 1994 from the Diocese of Lins. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Botucatu.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
23 March 1994
Latin
Arassatuben(sis)
Patron
Nossa Senhora Aparecida (Our Lady of Aparecida)
Annuario code
001000716

The see in figures

Catholics
424,550
Population
500,000
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
84.9%
Priests
50
Catholics per priest
8,491
Extent
9,798 km²
Catholics per km²
43

Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.

The bishop

Bishop
Sérgio Krzywy
Born
30 June 1952
Birthplace
Palmeira

A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.

The cathedral

Catedral Nossa Senhora Aparecida stands in Araçatuba, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.

The province of Botucatu

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Botucatu.

The sees of this province:

On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.

History

Araçatuba, a city in Brazil's ecclesiastical province of Botucatu, is the seat of this diocese, known in Latin as Dioecesis Arassatubensis.

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Sources

The see's own website · Wikipedia

Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.