Diocese of Tocantinópolis
Tocantinopolitan(us)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Tocantinópolis, Brazil
The Diocese of Tocantinopolis is a Latin Church diocese in Tocantins, Brazil. It began as a territorial prelature in 1954 and was promoted to a diocese in 1980, and is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Palmas.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 20 December 1954
- Latin
- Tocantinopolitan(us)
- Patron
- Nossa Senhora da Consolação (Our Lady of Consolation)
- Annuario code
- 001003240
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 150,019
- Population
- 404,600
- Catholic share
- 37.1%
- Priests
- 17
- Catholics per priest
- 8,825
- Extent
- 42,500 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 3.5
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
- Carlos Henrique Silva Oliveira
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 Consolação stands in Tocantinópolis, 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 Palmas
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Palmas.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of AraguaínaAraguaína
- Diocese of CristalândiaCristalândia
- Diocese of Miracema do TocantinsMiracema do Tocantins
- Archdiocese of PalmasPalmas
- Diocese of Porto NacionalPorto Nacional
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
The city of Tocantinópolis is the seat of this diocese (Latin: Dioecesis Tocantinopolitanus), part of the ecclesiastical province of Palmas in Brazil.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Cúria Diocesana, Rua XV de Novembro 245, 77900-000 Tocantinópolis, TO, Brasil
- Telephone
- [063]99304-9774
- [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].