Diocese of Lages
Lagen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Lages, Brazil
The Diocese of Lages is a Latin Rite suffragan diocese in Santa Catarina state, Brazil. It is suffragan to the Archdiocese of Chapeco. Bishop Gilson Meurer was appointed on 5 November 2025 following the resignation of Bishop Guilherme Antonio Werlang.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 17 January 1927
- Latin
- Lagen(sis)
- Patron
- Our Lady of Pleasures (Nossa Senhora dos Prazeres)
- Annuario code
- 001001935
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 351,000
- Population
- 338,301
- Priests
- 35
- Catholics per priest
- 10,029
- Extent
- 18,417 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 19
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
- Gilson Meurer
- Born
- 28 September 1973
- Birthplace
- Florianópolis
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 dos Prazeres stands in Lages, 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 Chapeco
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Chapeco.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of JoaçabaJoaçaba
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
A Latin Rite suffragan see in Santa Catarina state, Brazil, the Diocese of Lages (Latin: Dioecesis Lagensis) belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Chapecó. In the city of Lages stands its cathedral, Catedral Nossa Senhora dos Prazeres, dedicated to Our Lady of Joy.
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].