Diocese of Melo
Melen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Melo, Uruguay
The Diocese of Melo covers the Cerro Largo and Treinta y Tres departments of Uruguay and was erected in 1955. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Montevideo and is led by Bishop Pablo Alfonso Jourdan Alvariza, appointed in 2021. No standalone official diocesan website was found; the see is presented via the Conferencia Episcopal del Uruguay.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 14 April 1897
- Latin
- Melen(sis)
- Patron
- Our Lady of the Pillar and Saint Raphael
- Annuario code
- 001002217
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 110,000
- Population
- 150,000
- Catholic share
- 73.3%
- Extent
- 25,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 4.4
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
- Pablo Alfonso Jourdán Alvariza
- Born
- 23 January 1964
- Birthplace
- Montevideo
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 Nuestra Senora del Pilar y San Rafael stands in Melo, 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 Montevideo
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Montevideo.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of CanelonesCanelones
- Diocese of FloridaFlorida
- Diocese of Maldonado–Punta del Este–MinasMaldonado–Punta del Este–Minas
- Diocese of MercedesMercedes
- Archdiocese of MontevideoMontevideo
- Diocese of SaltoSalto
- Diocese of San José de MayoSan José de Mayo
- Diocese of TacuarembóTacuarembó
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
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].