Diocese of Petrópolis
Petropolitan(us)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Petrópolis, Brazil
The Diocese of Petropolis in Rio de Janeiro state was established on April 13, 1946, from the dioceses of Barra do Pirai and Niteroi. A suffragan of the Archdiocese of Niteroi, it is led by Bishop Joel Portella Amado, installed in March 2024.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 13 April 1946
- Latin
- Petropolitan(us)
- Patron
- Our Lady of Divine Love
- Annuario code
- 001002590
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 656,000
- Population
- 760,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 86.3%
- Priests
- 121
- Catholics per priest
- 5,421
- Extent
- 3,075 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 213
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
- Joel Portella Amado
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 Pedro de Alcantara stands in Petrópolis, 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 Niteroi
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Niteroi.
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
The city of Petrópolis in Brazil is the seat of this diocese (Latin: Dioecesis Petropolitanus), which forms part of the ecclesiastical province of Niterói.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Cúria Diocesana, Rua Monsenhor Bacelar 590, Valparaíso, 25685-113 Petrópolis, RJ, Brasil
- Telephone
- [024]2243-8640; 2243-9805
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.