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.
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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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