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Suffragan diocese Cruz Alta, Brazil

Diocese of Cruz Alta

Crucis Altae

Latin Church

The Diocese of Cruz Alta is a Latin Church diocese in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, established in 1971 from the Diocese of Santa Maria. Originally a suffragan of Porto Alegre, it was transferred to the province of Santa Maria in 2011, with its see at the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit in Cruz Alta.

On the map

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The address the register holds for Catedral Divino Espirito Santo, in Cruz Alta, Brazil.

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Established
1971
Catholics
263,938
Priests
40
Territory
16,325 km²

Parishes and churches

31 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.

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The bishop

Bishop
Nelio Domingos Zortea
Born
1 December 1963
Birthplace
Iraí

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The cathedral

Catedral Divino Espirito Santo stands in Cruz Alta, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

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History

Cruz Alta, a city within Brazil's ecclesiastical province of Santa Maria, is the seat of a Roman Catholic diocese known in Latin as Dioecesis Crucis Altae.

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