Diocese of Taubaté

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Diocese of Taubaté
Basic data
Country Brazil
Metropolitan bishopric Archdiocese of Aparecida
Diocesan bishop Wilson Luís Angotti Filho
Emeritus diocesan bishop Antônio Afonso de Miranda SDN
Carmo João Rhoden SCI
Vicar General José Eugênio de Faria Santos
founding 1908
surface 4,534 km²
Parishes 49 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Residents 705.466 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Catholics 462,182 (2017 / AP 2018 )
proportion of 65.5%
Diocesan priest 76 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Religious priest 60 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Catholics per priest 3,398
Permanent deacons 54 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Friars 181 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Religious sisters 193 (2017 / AP 2018 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language Portuguese
cathedral São Francisco das Chagas Cathedral
Website www.diocesedetaubate.org.br

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Taubaté ( lat. : Dioecesis Taubatensis ) is in Brazil located Roman Catholic diocese based in Taubaté in the state of São Paulo .

history

The diocese Taubaté was established on June 7, 1908 by Pope Pius X with the Apostolic Constitution Diocesium Nimiam Amplitudinem from territorial cessions of the Archdiocese of São Paulo and subordinated to this as a suffragan diocese. On July 4, 1924, the Taubaté diocese gave up parts of its territory to establish the Sorocaba diocese . Another assignment of territory took place on July 31, 1937 to establish the Lorena diocese . The diocese Taubaté gave up on April 19, 1958 parts of its territory to establish the Archdiocese of Aparecida , to which it was subordinated as a suffragan. Further territorial assignments took place on June 9, 1962 to found the diocese of Mogi das Cruzes and on January 30, 1981 to found the diocese of São José dos Campos .

Bishops of Taubaté

Cathedral in Taubaté

See also

Web links

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