Diocese of Vacaria
Vaccarien(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Vacaria, Brazil
The Diocese of Vacaria is a Latin Church diocese in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Originally a territorial prelature created in 1934, it was raised to a diocese in 1957 and is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Passo Fundo, led since 2018 by Bishop Sílvio Guterres Dutra.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 8 September 1934
- Latin
- Vaccarien(sis)
- Patron
- Nossa Senhora da Oliveira
- Annuario code
- 001000060
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 181,300
- Population
- 199,500
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 90.9%
- Priests
- 59
- Catholics per priest
- 3,073
- Extent
- 15,932 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 11
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
- Silvio Guterres Dutra
- Born
- 6 June 1966
- Birthplace
- Encruzilhada do Sul
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 Oliveira stands in Vacaria, 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 Passo Fundo
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Passo Fundo.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of EreximErexim
- Diocese of Frederico WestphalenFrederico Westphalen
- Archdiocese of Passo FundoPasso Fundo
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Vacaria is the episcopal seat of this Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in Brazil (Latin: Dioecesis Vaccariensis), a suffragan within the province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Passo Fundo.
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The see's own website · Wikipedia
Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.