Diocese of Osório

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Diocese of Osório
Basic data
Country Brazil
Metropolitan bishopric Archdiocese of Porto Alegre
Diocesan bishop Jaime Pedro Kohl PSDP
Emeritus diocesan bishop Thadeu Gomes Canellas
Vicar General Gibrail Walendorff
founding 1999
surface 6,120 km²
Parishes 24 (2013 / AP2014 )
Residents 301,000 (2013 / AP2014 )
Catholics 249,000 (2013 / AP2014 )
proportion of 82.7%
Diocesan priest 27 (2013 / AP2014 )
Religious priest 3 (2013 / AP2014 )
Catholics per priest 8,300
Permanent deacons 4 (2013 / AP2014 )
Friars 3 (2013 / AP2014 )
Religious sisters 48 (2013 / AP2014 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language Portuguese
cathedral Catedral Nossa Senhora da Conceição
Website www.diocesedeosorio.org

The diocese Osório ( Latin Dioecesis Osoriena , Portuguese Diocese de Osório ) is in Brazil located Roman Catholic diocese based in Osório in the State of Rio Grande do Sul .

Cathedral in Osório

history

The Diocese of Osório was established on November 10, 1999 by Pope John Paul II with the Apostolic Constitution Apostolicum supremi from cessions of territory from the Archdiocese of Porto Alegre and the Diocese of Caxias do Sul . It was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Porto Alegre as a suffragan .

Bishops of Osório

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Ioannes Paulus II: Const. Apost. Apostolicum supremi , AAS 92 (2000), n.1, p. 18f.