Diocese of Apucarana
Apucaranen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Apucarana, Brazil
The Diocese of Apucarana is a Latin Church diocese in Paraná state, Brazil, erected on November 28, 1964. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Londrina, and its cathedral was raised to a minor basilica in 2024.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 28 November 1964
- Latin
- Apucaranen(sis)
- Patron
- Nossa Senhora de Lourdes (Our Lady of Lourdes)
- Annuario code
- 001000713
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 383,000
- Population
- 476,000
- Catholic share
- 80.5%
- Priests
- 84
- Catholics per priest
- 4,560
- Extent
- 8,655 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 44
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
- Carlos José de Oliveira
- Born
- 17 October 1967
- Birthplace
- Botucatu
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 de Lourdes stands in Apucarana, 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 Londrina
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Londrina.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of Cornélio ProcópioCornélio Procópio
- Diocese of JacarezinhoJacarezinho
- Archdiocese of LondrinaLondrina
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Within Brazil's ecclesiastical province of Londrina, the city of Apucarana gives its seat to this diocese, Dioecesis Apucaranensis 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].