Diocese of Maldonado-Punta del Este-Minas

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Diocese of Maldonado-Punta del Este-Minas
Map of the Diocese of Maldonado-Punta del Este-Minas
Basic data
Country Uruguay
Ecclesiastical province Montevideo
Metropolitan bishopric Archdiocese of Montevideo
Diocesan bishop Milton Luis Tróccoli Cebedio
Emeritus diocesan bishop Rodolfo Pedro Wirz Kraemer
founding January 10, 1966
surface 7,584 km²
Parishes 15 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Residents 243.022 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Catholics 155,000 (2016 / AP 2017 )
proportion of 63.8%
Diocesan priest 8 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Religious priest 11 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Catholics per priest 8,158
Permanent deacons 11 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Friars 15 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Religious sisters 26 (2016 / AP 2017 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language Spanish
cathedral Catedral San Fernando

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Maldonado-Punta del Este -Minas ( Latin Dioecesis Maldonadensis-orientalis Orae-Fodinensis , Spanish diócesis de Maldonado-Punta del Este-Minas ) is an in Uruguay situated Roman Catholic diocese based in Maldonado . It is canonically and organizationally assigned to the Archdiocese of Montevideo as a suffragan .

history

Emerging from the Diocese of Minas , the Diocese of Maldonado-Punta del Este was established on January 10, 1966. About 155,000 Roman Catholic Christians live in the fifteen parishes . They are cared for pastorally by ten diocesan priests , nine religious priests , eleven deacons in the permanent diaconate with the help of 25 nuns and 13 friars .

On March 2, 2020, Pope Francis ordered the unification of the diocese with the Diocese of Minas and the renaming to the Diocese of Maldonado-Punta del Este-Minas. The previous bishop of Maldonado-Punta del Este, Milton Luis Tróccoli Cebedio , was appointed bishop of the united diocese.

Bishops

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Mergers delle Diocesi di Minas e Maldonado-Punta del Este (Uruguay) e nomina del Vescovo della nuova circoscrizione. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office , March 2, 2020, accessed March 2, 2020 (Italian).
Maldonado Cathedral