Archdiocese of Sorocaba

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Archdiocese of Sorocaba
Basic data
Country Brazil
Diocesan bishop Júlio Endi Akamine SAC
Emeritus diocesan bishop Eduardo Benes de Sales Rodrigues
founding 4th July 1924
surface 4,053 km²
Parishes 59 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Residents 1,143,111 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Catholics 800,177 (2017 / AP 2018 )
proportion of 70%
Diocesan priest 71 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Religious priest 19 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Catholics per priest 8,891
Permanent deacons 46 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Friars 53 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Religious sisters 131 (2017 / AP 2018 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language Portuguese
cathedral Catedral Metropolitana Nossa Senhora da Ponte
Website www.arquidiocesesorocaba.org.br
Suffragan dioceses Diocese of Itapetininga
Diocese of Itapeva
Diocese of Jundiaí
Diocese of Registro

The Archdiocese of Sorocaba ( Latin Archidioecesis Sorocabana , Portuguese Arquidiocese de Sorocaba ) is in Brazil located Roman Catholic archdiocese , based in Sorocaba in the state of São Paulo .

history

Pope Pius XI founded the diocese of Sorocaba on July 4, 1924 with the Apostolic Constitution Ubi praesules from ceding territories of the dioceses of Botucatu , Taubaté and the Archdiocese of São Paulo , to which it was also subordinated as a suffragan diocese. With the Bulle Brasilienses fideles it was raised to an archbishopric on April 29, 1992.

It lost parts of its territory in favor of the establishment of the following dioceses:

territory

The Archdiocese of Sorocaba includes the parishes of Sorocaba , Araçoiaba da Serra , Boituva , Cerquilho , Iperó , Jumirim , Piedade , Porto Feliz , Salto de Pirapora , Tapiraí , Tietê and Votorantim of the state of São Paulo.

Ordinaries

Bishops of Sorocaba

Archbishops of Sorocaba

statistics

year population priest Permanent deacons Religious Parishes
Catholics Residents % Total number
Diocesan priest
Religious priest 		Catholics per
priest 		Friars Religious sisters
1950 453,000 455,000 99.6 46 18th 28 9,847 28 168 32
1966 650,000 800,000 81.3 96 54 42 6,770 86 305 41
1967 ? 656.916 ? 67 42 25th ? 252 27
1976 450,000 500,000 90.0 75 36 39 6,000 12 44 180 38
1977 544,000 605,000 89.9 64 35 29 8,500 15th 37 180 40
1990 636,000 775,000 82.1 69 45 24 9,217 16 31 174 42
2000 569.373 813.391 70.0 51 37 14th 11,164 27 15th 142 36
2004 654.789 935.414 70.0 56 42 14th 11,692 39 19th 147 42
2010 666,000 952,000 70.0 113 73 40 5,893 39 104 152 42
2014 766.792 1,095,418 70.0 99 69 30th 7,745 41 83 138 55
2017 800.177 1,143,111 70.0 90 71 19th 8,890 46 53 131 59

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