Diocese of Jacarezinho
Iacarezinhoën(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Jacarezinho, Brazil
The Diocese of Jacarezinho is a Latin Rite diocese in Paraná, Brazil, erected on May 10, 1926 from the Diocese of Curitiba. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Londrina.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 10 May 1926
- Latin
- Iacarezinhoën(sis)
- Patron
- Our Lady of the Conception and Saint Sebastian
- Annuario code
- 001001704
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 338,066
- Population
- 437,000
- Catholic share
- 77.4%
- Priests
- 102
- Catholics per priest
- 3,314
- Extent
- 13,369 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 25
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
- Antônio Braz Benevente
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 Nossa Senhora da Conceição e São Sebastião stands in Jacarezinho, 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 Londrina
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Londrina.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of ApucaranaApucarana
- Diocese of Cornélio ProcópioCornélio Procópio
- Archdiocese of LondrinaLondrina
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
The Brazilian city of Jacarezinho is home to this diocese (Latin: Dioecesis Iacarezinhoënsis), which forms part of the ecclesiastical province of Londrina.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Cúria Diocesana, Av. Getúlio Vargas 262, 86400-000 Jacarezinho, PR, Brasil
- Telephone
- e fax [043]3525-0707
- [email protected]
This see keeps no website of its own, so its chancery is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.
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 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
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].