Diocese of Blumenau
Florumpraten(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Blumenau, Brazil
The Diocese of Blumenau is a Latin Church diocese in Santa Catarina, Brazil, erected on April 19, 2000. Since November 5, 2024 it has been a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Joinville.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 19 April 2000
- Latin
- Florumpraten(sis)
- Patron
- Saint Paul the Apostle
- Annuario code
- 001000913
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 430,000
- Population
- 609,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 70.6%
- Priests
- 61
- Catholics per priest
- 7,049
- Extent
- 3,388 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 127
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
- Rafael Biernaski
- Born
- 1 November 1955
- Birthplace
- Curitiba
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 São Paulo Apóstolo stands in Blumenau, 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 Joinville
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Joinville.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of JoinvilleJoinville
- Diocese of Rio do SulRio do Sul
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Blumenau, a city in Brazil, gives its name to a Roman Catholic diocese (Latin: Dioecesis Florumpratensis) that belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Joinville.
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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.