Archdiocese of Pelotas
Archdiocese of Pelotas | |
Basic data | |
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Country | Brazil |
Diocesan bishop | Jacinto Bergmann |
Emeritus diocesan bishop | Jayme Henrique Chemello |
Vicar General | Mário Prebíanca |
founding | 1910 |
surface | 20,594 km² |
Parishes | 25 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Residents | 628,000 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Catholics | 364,000 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
proportion of | 58% |
Diocesan priest | 35 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Religious priest | 8 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Catholics per priest | 8,465 |
Permanent deacons | 24 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Friars | 16 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Religious sisters | 149 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
rite | Roman rite |
Liturgical language | Portuguese |
cathedral | St. Francis of Paola |
Website | http://diocese.pelotas.tche.br |
Suffragan dioceses |
Diocese of Bagé Diocese of Rio Grande |
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Pelotas ( Latin Archidioecesis Pelotensis , Portuguese Arquidiocese de Pelotas ) is in Brazil located Roman Catholic diocese based in Pelotas in the state of Rio Grande do Sul .
history
The diocese of Pelotas was established on August 10, 1910 by Pope Pius X with the Apostolic Constitution Praedecessorum Nostrorum from territorial cessions of the Archdiocese of Porto Alegre and subordinated to this as a suffragan . On June 25, 1960, the diocese of Pelotas gave up parts of its territory to establish the diocese of Bagé . Another assignment of territory took place on May 27, 1971 to establish the diocese of Rio Grande .
On April 13, 2011 it was by Pope Benedict XVI. raised to the archbishopric with the seat of a metropolitan .
Bishops of Pelotas
- Francisco de Campos Barreto , 1911–1920, then Bishop of Campinas
- Joaquim Ferreira de Melo , 1921-1940
- Antônio Zattera , 1942-1977
- Jayme Henrique Chemello , 1977-2009
- Jacinto Bergmann , since 2009