Diocese of Teófilo Otoni
Otonipolitan(us)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Teófilo Otoni, Brazil
Latin rite diocese in Minas Gerais, Brazil, erected in 1960 from the Diocese of Araçuaí. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Diamantina, with Messias dos Reis Silveira as bishop since his appointment in 2018.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 27 November 1960
- Latin
- Otonipolitan(us)
- Patron
- Immaculate Conception
- Annuario code
- 001003198
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 340,000
- Population
- 477,000
- Catholic share
- 71.3%
- Priests
- 64
- Catholics per priest
- 5,313
- Extent
- 25,376 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 13
of the people living within its bounds
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
- Messias dos Reis Silveira
- Born
- 25 December 1958
- Birthplace
- Passos
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 Imaculada Conceição stands in Teófilo Otoni, 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 Diamantina
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Diamantina.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of AlmenaraAlmenara
- Diocese of AraçuaíAraçuaí
- Archdiocese of DiamantinaDiamantina
- Diocese of GuanhãesGuanhães
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
With its seat in the city of Teófilo Otoni, this diocese (Latin: Dioecesis Otonipolitana) forms part of the ecclesiastical province of Diamantina in Brazil.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Cúria Diocesana, Rua Padre Virgulino 751, 39800-025 Teófilo Otoni, MG, Brasil
- Telephone
- [033]3522-2618
- [email protected]
This see keeps no website of its own, so its chancery is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.
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 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
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].