Diocese of Uruaçu
Uruassuen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Uruaçu, Brazil
The Diocese of Uruaçu is a Latin Church diocese in Goiás, Brazil, erected in 1956 from the Archdiocese of Goiás. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Brasília, led since 2020 by Bishop Giovani Carlos Caldas Barroca.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 26 March 1956
- Latin
- Uruassuen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001000054
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 197,000
- Population
- 376,000
- Catholic share
- 52.4%
- Priests
- 56
- Catholics per priest
- 3,518
- Extent
- 43,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 4.6
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
- Giovani Carlos Caldas Barroca
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 Imaculado Coração de Maria stands in Uruaçu, 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 Brasília
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Brasília.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of BrasíliaBrasília
- Diocese of FormosaFormosa
- Diocese of LuziâniaLuziânia
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
The city of Uruaçu is the seat of this diocese (Latin: Dioecesis Uruassuensis), which belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Brasília in Brazil. Giovanni Carlos Caldas Barroca, a priest of the Brasilia archdiocese, was appointed its new bishop on June 17, 2020.
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.
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].