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Diocese of Bagé

Bagen(sis)

The Diocese of Bagé is a Latin Church diocese in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, erected in 1960 from territory of the dioceses of Pelotas and Uruguaiana. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Pelotas, currently led by Bishop Cleonir Paulo Dalbosco, O.F.M. Cap.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
25 June 1960
Latin
Bagen(sis)
Patron
Saint Sebastian
Annuario code
001000784

The see in figures

Catholics
312,073
Population
390,092
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
80.0%
Priests
27
Catholics per priest
11,558
Extent
35,554 km²
Catholics per km²
8.8

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
Cleonir Paulo Dalbosco, O.F.M. Cap.

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

Cathedral of Saint Sebastian stands in Bagé, 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 Pelotas

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Pelotas.

The sees of this province:

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

History

In Brazil's ecclesiastical province of Pelotas, the city of Bagé gives its seat to this diocese, known in Latin as Dioecesis Bagensis.

How to reach it

Diocesan offices
C.P. 270, Rua Marcílio Dias 1586, 96400-200 Bagé, RS, Brasil
Telephone and fax
[053]3242-4772

This see keeps no website of its own, so the address of its diocesan offices is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.

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Sources

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