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Diocese of Coxim

Coxinen(sis)

The Diocese of Coxim is a Latin Church diocese in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, established as a territorial prelature in 1978 and promoted to a diocese in 2002. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Campo Grande, with its see at the Cathedral of Saint Joseph in Coxim.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
1978
Latin
Coxinen(sis)
Patron
Saint Joseph
Annuario code
001001228

The see in figures

Catholics
110,000
Population
131,500
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
83.7%
Priests
24
Catholics per priest
4,583
Extent
45,000 km²
Catholics per km²
2.4

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
Otair Nicoletti
Born
6 April 1962
Birthplace
Fernandópolis

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 Sao Jose stands in Coxim, 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 Campo Grande

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Campo Grande.

The sees of this province:

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

History

In Mato Grosso do Sul state, in southwestern inland Brazil, the Latin Church maintains the Diocese of Coxim (Latin: Dioecesis Coxinensis), a suffragan of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Campo Grande. Its cathedral, the Catedral São José in the city of Coxim, is dedicated to Saint Joseph.

How to reach it

Diocesan offices
Cúria Diocesana, Av. Viriato Bandeira 834, 79400-000 Coxim, MS, Brasil
Telephone and fax
[067]3291-1928

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.