Diocese of Bagé
Bagen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Bagé, Brazil
The Diocese of Bagé is a Latin Church diocese in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, erected in 1960 from territory of the dioceses of Pelotas and Uruguaiana. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Pelotas, currently led by Bishop Cleonir Paulo Dalbosco, O.F.M. Cap.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 25 June 1960
- Latin
- Bagen(sis)
- Patron
- Saint Sebastian
- Annuario code
- 001000784
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 312,073
- Population
- 390,092
- Catholic share
- 80.0%
- Priests
- 27
- Catholics per priest
- 11,558
- Extent
- 35,554 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 8.8
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
- Cleonir Paulo Dalbosco, O.F.M. Cap.
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
Cathedral of Saint Sebastian stands in Bagé, 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 Pelotas
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Pelotas.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of PelotasPelotas
- Diocese of Rio GrandeRio Grande
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
In Brazil's ecclesiastical province of Pelotas, the city of Bagé gives its seat to this diocese, known in Latin as Dioecesis Bagensis.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- C.P. 270, Rua Marcílio Dias 1586, 96400-200 Bagé, RS, Brasil
- Telephone
- e fax [053]3242-4772
- [email protected]
This see keeps no website of its own, so its chancery is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.
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 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
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].