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Diocese of Palmas–Francisco Beltrão

Palmen(sis)-Beltranen(sis)

The Diocese of Palmas-Francisco Beltrão is a Latin Church suffragan diocese in the state of Paraná, originating in 1933 and named for its cathedral in Palmas and co-cathedral in Francisco Beltrão. It is part of the ecclesiastical province of Cascavel and led by Bishop Edgar Xavier Ertl, S.A.C., since 2016.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
1933
Latin
Palmen(sis)-Beltranen(sis)
Patron
Good Jesus
Annuario code
001002523

The see in figures

Catholics
490,787
Population
557,707
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
88.0%
Priests
90
Catholics per priest
5,453
Extent
17,964 km²
Catholics per km²
27

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
Edgar Xavier Ertl
Born
3 September 1966
Birthplace
Nova Prata do Iguaçu
Institute
SOCIETÀ DELL'APOSTOLATO CATTOLICO (PALLOTTINI)

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 do Senhor Bom Jesus stands in Palmas–Francisco Beltrão, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

Its co-cathedral is Co-Catedral Nossa Senhora da Glória.

On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.

The province of Cascavel

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Cascavel.

The sees of this province:

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

History

Two cities, Palmas and Francisco Beltrão, share this diocese (Latin: Dioecesis Palmensis-Beltranensis), which belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Cascavel in Brazil.

How to reach it

Diocesan offices
Rua Bispo Dom Carlos 819, C.P. 50, 85690-025 Palmas, PR, Brasil

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.