Archdiocese of Botucatu
Botucatuen(sis)
Metropolitan see · Latin Church · Botucatu, Brazil
Botucatu is a metropolitan archdiocese in São Paulo state, Brazil, erected as a diocese on June 7, 1908 and elevated to a metropolitan archdiocese on April 19, 1958. It heads an ecclesiastical province with several suffragan dioceses.
The see
- Rank
- Metropolitan see
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 7 June 1908
- Latin
- Botucatuen(sis)
- Patron
- Saint Anne
- Annuario code
- 001000937
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 461,000
- Population
- 544,000
- Catholic share
- 84.7%
- Priests
- 69
- Catholics per priest
- 6,681
- Extent
- 10,248 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 45
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
- Archbishop
- Maurício Grotto de Camargo
- Born
- 26 September 1957
- Birthplace
- Presidente Prudente
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 Basílica Sant'Ana stands in Botucatu, 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 Botucatu
This see is the metropolitan of its province.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of AraçatubaAraçatuba
- Diocese of AssisAssis
- Diocese of BauruBauru
- Diocese of LinsLins
- Diocese of MaríliaMarília
- Diocese of OurinhosOurinhos
- Diocese of Presidente PrudentePresidente Prudente
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Seated in the Brazilian city of the same name, the Archdiocese of Botucatu carries the Latin title Archidioecesis Botucatuensis.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Cúria Metropolitana, Rua Dr. Costa Leite 668, 18600-010 Botucatu, SP, Brasil
- Telephone
- [014]3811-5900
- [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].