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Diocese of Maldonado–Punta del Este–Minas

Maldonaden(sis)-Orientalis Orae-Fodinen(sis)

The Diocese of Maldonado-Punta del Este-Minas covers Maldonado, Rocha and Lavalleja departments in Uruguay. It was erected in 1966 and took its current name in 2020 when the Diocese of Minas was merged into it. Bishop Milton Luis Troccoli Cebedio leads the see.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
2 March 2020
Latin
Maldonaden(sis)-Orientalis Orae-Fodinen(sis)
Patron
St. Ferdinand (San Fernando)
Annuario code
001002122

The see in figures

Catholics
160,000
Population
180,000
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
88.9%
Priests
29
Catholics per priest
5,517
Extent
13,000 km²
Catholics per km²
12

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
Milton Luis Tróccoli Cebedio
Born
3 March 1964
Birthplace
Montevideo

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 de San Fernando stands in Maldonado–Punta del Este–Minas, 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 Montevideo

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Montevideo.

The sees of this province:

On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.

History

A diocese of the Latin Church in Uruguay, Maldonado-Punta del Este-Minas (Latin: Dioecesis Maldonadensis-Orientalis Orae-Fodinensis) took its present form on March 2, 2020, when the Diocese of Minas was united with what had until then been the Diocese of Maldonado-Punta del Este.

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Sources

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.