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Metropolitan see Pelotas, Brazil

Archdiocese of Pelotas

Peloten(sis)

Pelotas was erected as a diocese in 1910 and elevated to a metropolitan archdiocese by Pope Benedict XVI on April 13, 2011. It is the metropolitan see of the ecclesiastical province of Pelotas in Rio Grande do Sul, with suffragans Bage and Rio Grande.

On the map

Esri
The address the register holds for Catedral Metropolitana Sao Francisco de Paula, in Pelotas, Brazil.

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Established
1910
Catholics
264,000
Priests
45
Territory
20,737 km²

Parishes and churches

27 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.

This is our recorded coverage, not an official diocesan parish count. Confirm service times with the parish before travelling.

The bishop

Archbishop
Jacinto Bergmann
Born
29 October 1951
Birthplace
São Sebastião do Caí

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The cathedral

Catedral Metropolitana Sao Francisco de Paula stands in Pelotas, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

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History

Located in the city of Pelotas in Rio Grande do Sul, this Roman Catholic archdiocese (Latin: Archidioecesis Pelotensis) was formerly part of the ecclesiastical province of Porto Alegre in Brazil; on April 13, 2011 it was raised to an archdiocese in its own right.