Diocese of Tubarão
Tubaraoën(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Tubarão, Brazil
The Diocese of Tubarao is a Latin Church diocese in Santa Catarina, Brazil, erected on 28 December 1954 from the Archdiocese of Florianopolis. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Florianopolis.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 28 December 1954
- Latin
- Tubaraoën(sis)
- Patron
- Nossa Senhora da Piedade (Our Lady of Piety)
- Annuario code
- 001000007
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 298,390
- Population
- 355,435
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 84.0%
- Priests
- 54
- Catholics per priest
- 5,526
- Extent
- 4,531 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 66
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
- Adilson Pedro Busin
- Born
- 20 May 1965
- Birthplace
- Sarandi
- Institute
- MISSIONARI DI S. CARLO (SCALABRINIANI)
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 Piedade stands in Tubarão, 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 Florianópolis
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Florianópolis.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of FlorianópolisFlorianópolis
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
The city of Tubarão is the seat of this diocese (Latin: Dioecesis Tubaraoënsis), which belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Florianópolis 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.