Diocese of Dourados
Auratopolitan(us)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Dourados, Brazil
The Diocese of Dourados is a Latin Church see in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, established in 1957 from the Diocese of Corumbá. It is suffragan to the Archdiocese of Campo Grande and led by Bishop Henrique Aparecido de Lima.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 15 June 1957
- Latin
- Auratopolitan(us)
- Patron
- Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception
- Annuario code
- 001001320
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 353,000
- Population
- 485,927
- Catholic share
- 72.6%
- Priests
- 71
- Catholics per priest
- 4,972
- Extent
- 68,300 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 5.2
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
- Henrique Aparecido de Lima, C.SS.R.
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 Our Lady of the Conception stands in Dourados, 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 Campo Grande
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Campo Grande.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of Campo GrandeCampo Grande
- Diocese of CorumbáCorumbá
- Diocese of CoximCoxim
- Diocese of JardimJardim
- Diocese of NaviraíNaviraí
- Diocese of Três LagoasTrês Lagoas
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
A Latin Church territory of the Catholic Church, the Diocese of Dourados (Latin: Dioecesis Auratopolitanus) has its seat in the Brazilian city of Dourados and serves as a suffragan within the province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Campo Grande.
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].