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Diocese of Osório

Osorien(sis)

The Diocese of Osório is a Latin Church suffragan diocese in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, created in 1999 from territory of the Archdiocese of Porto Alegre and the Diocese of Caxias do Sul. It is led by Bishop Jaime Pedro Kohl, appointed in 2006.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
10 November 1999
Latin
Osorien(sis)
Annuario code
001002483

The see in figures

Catholics
275,000
Population
269,186
Priests
32
Catholics per priest
8,594
Extent
6,210 km²
Catholics per km²
44

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
Jaime Pedro Kohl
Born
12 December 1954
Birthplace
Poço das Antas
Institute
POVERI SERVI DELLA DIVINA PROVVIDENZA (DON CALABRIA) (P.S.D.P.)

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 stands in Osório, 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 Porto Alegre

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Porto Alegre.

The sees of this province:

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

History

The Diocese of Osório (Latin: Dioecesis Osoriena) takes its seat in the city of Osório within Brazil's ecclesiastical province of Porto Alegre.

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Sources

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.