Diocese of Sete Lagoas
Septemlacunen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Sete Lagoas, Brazil
Latin rite diocese in Minas Gerais, Brazil, erected in 1955. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Belo Horizonte, with Francisco Cota de Oliveira serving as bishop since 2020.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 16 July 1955
- Latin
- Septemlacunen(sis)
- Patron
- Saint Anthony
- Annuario code
- 001003033
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 354,017
- Population
- 454,314
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 77.9%
- Priests
- 62
- Catholics per priest
- 5,710
- Extent
- 11,915 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 30
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
- Francisco Cota de Oliveira
- Born
- 5 August 1969
- Birthplace
- Onça do Pitangui
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 Santo Antônio stands in Sete Lagoas, 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 Belo Horizonte
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Belo Horizonte.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of Belo HorizonteBelo Horizonte
- Diocese of DivinópolisDivinópolis
- Diocese of LuzLuz
- Diocese of OliveiraOliveira
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
The city of Sete Lagoas is the seat of this diocese (Latin: Dioecesis Septemlacunensis), which forms part of the ecclesiastical province of Belo Horizonte in Brazil.
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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.