Diocese of Palmas-Francisco Beltrão
Diocese of Palmas-Francisco Beltrão | |
Basic data | |
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Country | Brazil |
Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Cascavel |
Diocesan bishop | Edgar Xavier Ertl SAC |
founding | 1933 |
surface | 18,719 km² |
Parishes | 44 (31.12.2013 / AP2014 ) |
Residents | 626,000 (December 31, 2013 / AP2014 ) |
Catholics | 549,000 (December 31, 2013 / AP2014 ) |
proportion of | 87.7% |
Diocesan priest | 40 (December 31, 2013 / AP2014 ) |
Religious priest | 43 ( 12/31/2013 / AP2014 ) |
Catholics per priest | 6,614 |
Permanent deacons | 6 (December 31, 2013 / AP2014 ) |
Friars | 68 ( 12/31/2013 / AP2014 ) |
Religious sisters | 102 ( 12/31/2013 / AP2014 ) |
rite | Roman rite |
Liturgical language | Portuguese |
cathedral | Catedral Senhor Bom Jesus da Coluna |
Co-cathedral | Co-Catedral Nossa Senhora da Glória |
Website | www.curiadiocesana.com.br |
The diocese of Palmas-Francisco Beltrão ( lat. : Dioecesis palmensis-Beltranensis ) is in Brazil located Roman Catholic diocese , based in Palma . It covers part of the state of Paraná .
history
Pope Pius XI founded the territorial prelature of Palmas on December 9, 1933 with the Apostolic Constitution Ad maius christifidelium from ceding territories of the dioceses of Lages and Ponta Grossa and subordinated them to the Archdiocese of Curitiba as a suffragan diocese .
On January 14, 1958, the Palmas prelature gave part of its territory to the establishment of the Chapecó diocese and was simultaneously elevated to the rank of diocese . On October 16, 1979 it became part of the ecclesiastical province of the Archdiocese of Cascavel. On January 7, 1987, it was renamed the Diocese of Palmas-Francisco Beltrão .
Ordinaries
Prelate of Palmas
- Carlos Eduardo de Sabóia Bandeira Melo OFM (December 13, 1947– January 14, 1958)
Bishops of Palmas
- Carlos Eduardo de Sabóia Bandeira Melo OFM (January 14, 1958 - February 7, 1969)
- Agostinho José Sartori OFMCap (February 16, 1970 - January 7, 1987)
Bishops of Palmas-Francisco Beltrão
- Agostinho José Sartori OFMCap (January 7, 1987– August 24, 2005)
- José Antônio Peruzzo (August 24, 2005– January 7, 2015, Archbishop of Curitiba )
- Edgar Xavier Ertl SAC (since April 27, 2016)
statistics
year | population | priest | Permanent deacons | Religious | Parishes | ||||||
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Catholics | Residents | % | Total number | Diocesan priest | Religious priest | Catholics per priest | Friars | Religious sisters | |||
1950 | 126,900 | 137,630 | 92.2 | 23 | 3 | 20th | 5,517 | 22nd | 36 | 11 | |
1966 | 339.340 | 379.694 | 89.4 | 49 | 14th | 35 | 6,925 | 36 | 125 | 27 | |
1968 | 470,000 | 520,000 | 90.4 | 45 | 7th | 38 | 10,444 | 38 | 50 | 29 | |
1976 | 553,500 | 635,500 | 87.1 | 74 | 16 | 58 | 7,479 | 80 | 140 | 34 | |
1980 | 596,000 | 709,000 | 84.1 | 73 | 12 | 61 | 8,164 | 94 | 156 | 38 | |
1990 | 557,000 | 632,000 | 88.1 | 73 | 23 | 50 | 7,630 | 100 | 158 | 39 | |
2000 | 513,000 | 569,000 | 90.2 | 78 | 25th | 53 | 6,576 | 3 | 144 | 134 | 41 |
2004 | 490.787 | 557,707 | 88.0 | 78 | 30th | 48 | 6,292 | 6th | 110 | 115 | 43 |
2013 | 549,000 | 626,000 | 87.7 | 83 | 40 | 43 | 6,614 | 6th | 68 | 102 | 44 |
See also
Web links
- Entry for the diocese of Palmas-Francisco Beltrão on catholic-hierarchy.org
- Entry on the diocese of Palmas-Francisco Beltrão on gcatholic.org (English)