Diocese of Amparo
Amparen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Amparo, Brazil
The Diocese of Amparo is a Latin Church diocese in São Paulo state, Brazil, erected on December 23, 1997 from territory of the Archdiocese of Campinas and the Diocese of Limeira. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Campinas.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 23 December 1997
- Latin
- Amparen(sis)
- Patron
- Nossa Senhora do Amparo (Our Lady of Amparo)
- Annuario code
- 001000679
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 300,808
- Population
- 376,000
- Catholic share
- 80.0%
- Priests
- 45
- Catholics per priest
- 6,685
- Extent
- 2,084 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 144
of the people living within its bounds
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Luiz Gonzaga Fechio
- Born
- 4 December 1965
- Birthplace
- Matão
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
Catedral Nossa Senhora do Amparo stands in Amparo, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
The province of Campinas
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Campinas.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of Bragança PaulistaBragança Paulista
- Archdiocese of CampinasCampinas
- Diocese of JaúJaú
- Diocese of LimeiraLimeira
- Diocese of PiracicabaPiracicaba
- Diocese of São CarlosSão Carlos
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Amparo, a city in the ecclesiastical province of Campinas in Brazil, is the seat of this diocese, called Dioecesis Amparensis in Latin.
What is kept by invitation
The record above is published because it is public: what this see is, when it was erected, who holds its chair, and where it stands among its neighbours.
The working record is not. The chancery's address, telephone and email, the clergy of the see, and the hours of Mass, confession and adoration in the parishes within it are kept for members, and a person reads every request.
Sources
The see's own website · Wikipedia
This record is compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. On the method, see the keeping of the record. Whoever finds an error is asked, in charity, to write: [email protected].