Diocese of Tocantinópolis
Tocantinopolitan(us)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Tocantinópolis, Brazil
The Diocese of Tocantinopolis is a Latin Church diocese in Tocantins, Brazil. It began as a territorial prelature in 1954 and was promoted to a diocese in 1980, and is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Palmas.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 20 December 1954
- Latin
- Tocantinopolitan(us)
- Patron
- Nossa Senhora da Consolação (Our Lady of Consolation)
- Annuario code
- 001003240
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 150,019
- Population
- 404,600
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 37.1%
- Priests
- 17
- Catholics per priest
- 8,825
- Extent
- 42,500 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 3.5
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
- Carlos Henrique Silva Oliveira
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 Consolação stands in Tocantinópolis, 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 Palmas
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Palmas.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of AraguaínaAraguaína
- Diocese of CristalândiaCristalândia
- Diocese of Miracema do TocantinsMiracema do Tocantins
- Archdiocese of PalmasPalmas
- Diocese of Porto NacionalPorto Nacional
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
The city of Tocantinópolis is the seat of this diocese (Latin: Dioecesis Tocantinopolitanus), part of the ecclesiastical province of Palmas in Brazil.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Cúria Diocesana, Rua XV de Novembro 245, 77900-000 Tocantinópolis, TO, Brasil
- Telephone
- [063]99304-9774
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.