Diocese of Bragança Paulista
Brigantien(sis) in Brasilia
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Bragança Paulista, Brazil
The Diocese of Bragança Paulista is a Latin Church diocese in São Paulo state, Brazil, erected on July 24, 1925. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Campinas.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 24 July 1925
- Latin
- Brigantien(sis) in Brasilia
- Patron
- Immaculate Conception
- Annuario code
- 001000945
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 831,000
- Population
- 1,138,000
- Catholic share
- 73.0%
- Priests
- 175
- Catholics per priest
- 4,749
- Extent
- 4,400 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 189
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
- Sérgio Aparecido Colombo
- Born
- 29 August 1954
- Birthplace
- Cajobí
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 da Imaculada Conceição stands in Bragança Paulista, 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 AmparoAmparo
- 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
Within Brazil's ecclesiastical province of Campinas sits the Diocese of Bragança Paulista (Latin: Dioecesis Brigantiensis in Brasilia), seated in the city of that name.
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].