Archdiocese of Pouso Alegre

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Archdiocese of Pouso Alegre
Basic data
Country Brazil
Diocesan bishop José Luiz Majella Delgado CSsR
founding 1900
surface 12,620 km²
Parishes 59 ( 12/31/2013 / AP2014 )
Residents 817,000 (December 31, 2013 / AP2014 )
Catholics 739,000 (December 31, 2013 / AP2014 )
proportion of 90.5%
Diocesan priest 111 ( 12/31/2013 / AP2014 )
Religious priest 20 (December 31, 2013 / AP2014 )
Catholics per priest 5,641
Permanent deacons 1 (December 31, 2013 / AP2014 )
Friars 60 (December 31, 2013 / AP2014 )
Religious sisters 140 ( 12/31/2013 / AP2014 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language Portuguese
cathedral Catedral Metropolitana Bom Jesus
Website arquidiocesepa.cjb.net
Suffragan dioceses Diocese of Campanha
Diocese of Guaxupé

The Archdiocese of Pouso Alegre ( lat. : Archidioecesis Pouso Alegre ) is in Brazil located Roman Catholic Archdiocese based in Pouso Alegre in the state of Minas Gerais .

history

Pope Leo XIII. founded the diocese of Pouso Alegre on August 4, 1900 with the Apostolic Constitution Regio latissime patens from cession of territory of the Archdiocese of Mariana ; it was subordinated to the Archdiocese of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro as a suffragan diocese. On May 1, 1906, it became part of the ecclesiastical province of the Archdiocese of Mariana.

It lost part of its territory on February 3, 1916 in favor of the establishment of the diocese of Guaxupé . With the bull Qui tanquam Petrus , the diocese was elevated to an archbishopric on April 14, 1962.

territory

The Archdiocese of Pouso Alegre comprises the following municipalities in the state of Minas Gerais:

Pouso Alegre , Andradas, Bom Repouso, Borda da Mata, Brasópolis, Bueno Brandão, Cachoeira de Minas, Caldas , Camanducaia, Cambuí, Carvalhópolis, Conceição dos Ouros, Congonhal, Consolação, Córrego do Bom Jesus, Delfim Moreira do, Espionado Estiva, Extrema , Gonçalves , Ibitiúra de Minas, Inconfidentes, Ipuiúna, Itajubá , Itapeva , Jacutinga , Maria da Fé, Monte Sião, Munhoz, Ouro Fino, Paraisópolis, Piranguçu, Piranguinho, Poço Fundo, Santa Rita de Caldas, Santa Rita do Sapuca , São João da Mata, São Sebastião da Bela Vista, Sapucaí-Mirim, Senador Amaral, Silvianópolis, Tocos do Moji, Toledo , Turvolândia and Wencelau Braz .

Ordinaries

Bishops of Pouso Alegre

Archbishops of Pouso Alegre

statistics

year population priest Permanent
deacons 		Religious Parishes
Catholics Residents % Total number Diocesan priest Religious priest Catholics
per priest 		male Female
1950 529.445 534.445 99.1 54 37 17th 9,804 22nd 175 34
1965 402,000 412.726 97.4 94 48 46 4,276 55 306 40
1968 439.200 462.200 95.0 88 45 43 4,990 60 329 31
1976 450,000 480,000 93.8 72 40 32 6,250 39 243 40
1980 494,000 546,000 90.5 71 39 32 6,957 45 269 43
1990 520,000 565,000 92.0 78 56 22nd 6,666 23 208 46
2000 583,318 645,000 90.4 104 75 29 5,608 36 213 51
2004 660.580 730.918 90.4 91 71 20th 7,259 45 191 53
2013 739,000 817,000 90.5 131 111 20th 5,641 1 60 140 59

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