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Diocese of Campo Limpo

Campi Limpidi

The Diocese of Campo Limpo is a Latin Church suffragan diocese covering the southern and western zones of the city of Sao Paulo plus surrounding municipalities, Brazil. It was established in 1989 from the Archdiocese of Sao Paulo.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
15 March 1989
Latin
Campi Limpidi
Patron
Holy Family
Annuario code
001001038

The see in figures

Catholics
3,020,000
Population
3,309,000
Catholic share
91.3%

of the people living within its bounds

Priests
193
Catholics per priest
15,648
Extent
1,560 km²
Catholics per km²
1,936

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
Valdir José de Castro, S.S.P.
Born
14 February 1961
Birthplace
Santa Bárbara d'Oeste
Institute
SOCIETÀ S. PAOLO (S.S.P.)

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 Santuário Sagrada Família stands in Campo Limpo, 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 São Paulo

A suffragan of Archdiocese of São Paulo.

The sees of this province:

On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.

History

A Latin Church territory in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, the Diocese de Campo Limpo (Latin: Dioecesis Campi Limpidi) stands as a suffragan of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of São Paulo. Pope John Paul II erected it on 15 March 1989 through the apostolic constitution Com o Beneplácito de Deus.

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.

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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].