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Suffragan diocese Lorena, Brazil

Diocese of Lorena

Lorenen(sis)

Latin Church

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.

On the map

Esri
The address the register holds for Catedral Nossa Senhora da Piedade, in Lorena, Brazil.

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Established
1937
Catholics
198,938
Priests
83
Territory
5,055 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
Joaquim Wladimir Lopes Dias

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The cathedral

Catedral Nossa Senhora da Piedade stands in Lorena, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

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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.

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