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Diocese of São Luiz de Cáceres

Sancti Aloisii de Caceres

Latin Catholic diocese in Mato Grosso, western Brazil, erected in 1910 and suffragan to the Archdiocese of Cuiabá. Its cathedral in Cáceres is dedicated to Saint Louis IX of France.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
5 April 1910
Latin
Sancti Aloisii de Caceres
Patron
Saint Louis IX of France
Annuario code
001002997

The see in figures

Catholics
351,000
Population
428,000
Catholic share
82.0%

of the people living within its bounds

Priests
43
Catholics per priest
8,163
Extent
100,000 km²
Catholics per km²
3.5

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
Jacy Diniz Rocha
Born
29 September 1958
Birthplace
São João Evangelista

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 São Luiz de França stands in São Luiz de Cáceres, 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 Cuiabá

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Cuiabá.

The sees of this province:

On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.

History

In the state of Mato Grosso, in western central Brazil, the Diocese of São Luíz de Cáceres (Latin: Dioecesis Sancti Aloisii de Caceres) serves as a suffragan Latin diocese within the province of the Metropolitan Cuiabá. Its episcopal seat is the Catedral São Luiz de França in the city of Cáceres, dedicated to Saint King Louis IX of France.

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.

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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].