Diocese of Criciúma
Criciumen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Criciúma, Brazil
The Diocese of Criciuma is a Latin Church diocese in Santa Catarina, Brazil, established in 1998 from the Diocese of Tubarao. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Florianopolis, with its see in Criciuma.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 27 May 1998
- Latin
- Criciumen(sis)
- Patron
- san José
- Annuario code
- 001001234
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 484,880
- Population
- 525,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 92.4%
- Priests
- 79
- Catholics per priest
- 6,138
- Extent
- 5,093 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 95
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
- Jacinto Inacio Flach
- Born
- 26 February 1952
- Birthplace
- Bom Princípio
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 Criciúma, 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 Florianopolis
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Florianopolis.
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
The city of Criciúma hosts a Roman Catholic diocese (Latin: Dioecesis Criciumensis) within the ecclesiastical province of Florianópolis in Brazil.
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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.