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Diocese of Assis

Assisen(sis)

The Diocese of Assis is a Latin Church diocese in São Paulo state, Brazil, erected on November 11, 1928. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Botucatu.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
30 November 1928
Latin
Assisen(sis)
Patron
Sagrado Coração de Jesus (Sacred Heart of Jesus)
Annuario code
001000739

The see in figures

Catholics
267,000
Population
314,000
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
85.0%
Priests
46
Catholics per priest
5,804
Extent
9,187 km²
Catholics per km²
29

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
Argemiro de Azevedo, C.M.F.

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 do Sagrado Coração de Jesus stands in Assis, 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

The city of Assis, within the ecclesiastical province of Botucatu in Brazil, holds the seat of this diocese, Dioecesis Assisensis in Latin.

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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.