Diocese of Criciúma
Criciumen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Criciúma, Brazil
The Diocese of Criciuma is a Latin Church diocese in Santa Catarina, Brazil, established in 1998 from the Diocese of Tubarao. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Florianopolis, with its see in Criciuma.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 27 May 1998
- Latin
- Criciumen(sis)
- Patron
- san José
- Annuario code
- 001001234
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 484,880
- Population
- 525,000
- Catholic share
- 92.4%
- Priests
- 79
- Catholics per priest
- 6,138
- Extent
- 5,093 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 95
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
- Jacinto Inacio Flach
- Born
- 26 February 1952
- Birthplace
- Bom Princípio
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 Sao Jose stands in Criciúma, 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 Florianopolis
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Florianopolis.
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
The city of Criciúma hosts a Roman Catholic diocese (Latin: Dioecesis Criciumensis) within the ecclesiastical province of Florianópolis 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].