Diocese of Osório
Osorien(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Osório, Brazil
The Diocese of Osório is a Latin Church suffragan diocese in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, created in 1999 from territory of the Archdiocese of Porto Alegre and the Diocese of Caxias do Sul. It is led by Bishop Jaime Pedro Kohl, appointed in 2006.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 10 November 1999
- Latin
- Osorien(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001002483
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 275,000
- Population
- 269,186
- Priests
- 32
- Catholics per priest
- 8,594
- Extent
- 6,210 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 44
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
- Jaime Pedro Kohl
- Born
- 12 December 1954
- Birthplace
- Poço das Antas
- Institute
- POVERI SERVI DELLA DIVINA PROVVIDENZA (DON CALABRIA) (P.S.D.P.)
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 stands in Osório, 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 Porto Alegre
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Porto Alegre.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of Caxias do SulCaxias do Sul
- Diocese of MontenegroMontenegro
- Diocese of Novo HamburgoNovo Hamburgo
- Archdiocese of Porto AlegrePorto Alegre
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
The Diocese of Osório (Latin: Dioecesis Osoriena) takes its seat in the city of Osório within Brazil's ecclesiastical province of Porto Alegre.
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].