Diocese of Taubaté
Taubaten(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Taubaté, Brazil
Latin rite diocese in São Paulo state, Brazil, erected in 1908 from the Diocese of São Paulo. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Aparecida, with Wilson Luís Angotti Filho as bishop since 2015.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 7 June 1908
- Latin
- Taubaten(sis)
- Patron
- St. Francis of Assisi
- Annuario code
- 001003180
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 567,000
- Population
- 666,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 85.1%
- Priests
- 135
- Catholics per priest
- 4,200
- Extent
- 4,626 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 123
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
- Wilson Luís Angotti Filho
- Born
- 5 April 1958
- Birthplace
- Taquaritinga
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 São Francisco das Chagas stands in Taubaté, 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 Aparecida
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Aparecida.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of AparecidaAparecida
- Diocese of CaraguatatubaCaraguatatuba
- Diocese of LorenaLorena
- Diocese of São José dos CamposSão José dos Campos
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Seated in the city of Taubaté, this diocese (Latin: Dioecesis Taubatensis) forms part of the ecclesiastical province of Aparecida in Brazil.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Avenida Professor Moreira 327, Jardim das Nações, 12030-070 Taubaté, SP, Brasil
- Telephone
- [012]3632-2855
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.