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.
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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.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
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.
This see in the wire
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- Bishop Nélio Domingos Zortea appoints Frei Igor Colares Raupp as Parochial Vicar
- Bishop Nélio Domingos Zortea appoints Silvio Mazzarolo
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