Diocese of Lorena
Lorenen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Lorena, Brazil
The Diocese of Lorena is a Latin rite diocese in São Paulo state, Brazil, erected in 1937 from the Diocese of Taubaté and suffragan to the Archdiocese of Aparecida. The current bishop is Joaquim Wladimir Lopes Dias, appointed in 2021.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 31 July 1937
- Latin
- Lorenen(sis)
- Patron
- Our Lady of Piety (Nossa Senhora da Piedade)
- Annuario code
- 001002046
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 198,938
- Population
- 263,590
- Catholic share
- 75.5%
- Priests
- 83
- Catholics per priest
- 2,397
- Extent
- 5,055 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 39
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
- Joaquim Wladimir Lopes Dias
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 Piedade stands in Lorena, 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 Aparecida
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Aparecida.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of AparecidaAparecida
- Diocese of CaraguatatubaCaraguatatuba
- Diocese of São José dos CamposSão José dos Campos
- Diocese of TaubatéTaubaté
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
The city of Lorena, São Paulo, is the seat of this diocese (Latin: Dioecesis Lorenensis) within Brazil's ecclesiastical province of Aparecida. On Tuesday, 18 August 2012, Pope Benedict XVI named the then-Bishop of Lorena, Bishop Benedito Beni dos Santos, as one of the papally-appointed Synod Fathers for the 13th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on the New Evangelization, held in October 2012.
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].