Diocese of Uruaçu
Uruassuen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Uruaçu, Brazil
The Diocese of Uruaçu is a Latin Church diocese in Goiás, Brazil, erected in 1956 from the Archdiocese of Goiás. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Brasília, led since 2020 by Bishop Giovani Carlos Caldas Barroca.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 26 March 1956
- Latin
- Uruassuen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001000054
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 197,000
- Population
- 376,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 52.4%
- Priests
- 56
- Catholics per priest
- 3,518
- Extent
- 43,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 4.6
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
- Giovani Carlos Caldas Barroca
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 Imaculado Coração de Maria stands in Uruaçu, 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 Brasília
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Brasília.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of BrasíliaBrasília
- Diocese of FormosaFormosa
- Diocese of LuziâniaLuziânia
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
The city of Uruaçu is the seat of this diocese (Latin: Dioecesis Uruassuensis), which belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Brasília in Brazil. Giovanni Carlos Caldas Barroca, a priest of the Brasilia archdiocese, was appointed its new bishop on June 17, 2020.
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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.