Diocese of Caçador
Captatoropolitan(us)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Caçador, Brazil
The Diocese of Caçador is a Latin Church diocese in Santa Catarina, Brazil, erected on 23 November 1968 from the Diocese of Lages. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Chapecó, led by Bishop Cleocir Bonetti since 2021.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 23 November 1968
- Latin
- Captatoropolitan(us)
- Patron
- São Francisco de Assis
- Annuario code
- 001000999
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 286,000
- Population
- 376,000
- Catholic share
- 76.1%
- Priests
- 60
- Catholics per priest
- 4,767
- Extent
- 12,398 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 23
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
- Dom Cleocir Bonetti
- Born
- 7 August 1972
- Birthplace
- São Valentim
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 St. Francis of Assisi stands in Caçador, 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 Chapecó
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Chapecó.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of ChapecóChapecó
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
The city of Caçador gives its seat to a Roman Catholic diocese (Latin: Dioecesis Captatoropolitana) within the ecclesiastical province of Chapecó in Brazil.
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].