Metropolitan see Pelotas, Brazil
Archdiocese of Pelotas
Peloten(sis)
Latin Church
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.
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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.
- São Francisco de PaulaPelotas · CathedralView parish
- Divino Espírito SantoJaguarãoView parish
- Imaculada ConceiçãoJaguarãoView parish
- Nossa Senhora AparecidaPelotasView parish
- Nossa Senhora da ConceiçãoCanguçuView parish
- Nossa Senhora da ConceiçãoPelotasView parish
- Nossa Senhora da GraçaArroio GrandeView parish
- Nossa Senhora da LuzPelotasView parish
- Nossa Senhora de FátimaPelotasView parish
- Nossa Senhora do RosárioCerritoView parish
- Nossa Senhora MedianeiraTuruçuView parish
- Nosso Senhor do BonfimMorro RedondoView parish
- Operários de CristoPelotasView parish
- Sagrado Coração de JesusPelotasView parish
- Santa TeclaCapão do LeãoView parish
- Santa TeresinhaPelotasView parish
- Santo AntônioLaranjalView parish
- Santo Cura d’ArsPelotasView parish
- Sant’AnaColônia MacielView parish
- Senhor RessuscitadoPelotasView parish
- São CristóvãoPelotasView parish
- São Francisco de PaulaPelotasView parish
- São JoséPedro OsórioView parish
- São José OperárioFragataView parish
- São João BatistaReservaView parish
- São João BatistaHervalView parish
- São LourençoSão Lourenço do SulView parish
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.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
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.