Diocese of Jacarezinho
Iacarezinhoën(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Jacarezinho, Brazil
The Diocese of Jacarezinho is a Latin Rite diocese in Paraná, Brazil, erected on May 10, 1926 from the Diocese of Curitiba. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Londrina.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 10 May 1926
- Latin
- Iacarezinhoën(sis)
- Patron
- Our Lady of the Conception and Saint Sebastian
- Annuario code
- 001001704
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 338,066
- Population
- 437,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 77.4%
- Priests
- 102
- Catholics per priest
- 3,314
- Extent
- 13,369 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 25
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
- Antônio Braz Benevente
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 Nossa Senhora da Conceição e São Sebastião stands in Jacarezinho, 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 Londrina
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Londrina.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of ApucaranaApucarana
- Diocese of Cornélio ProcópioCornélio Procópio
- Archdiocese of LondrinaLondrina
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
The Brazilian city of Jacarezinho is home to this diocese (Latin: Dioecesis Iacarezinhoënsis), which forms part of the ecclesiastical province of Londrina.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Cúria Diocesana, Av. Getúlio Vargas 262, 86400-000 Jacarezinho, PR, Brasil
- Telephone and fax
- [043]3525-0707
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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Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.