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Diocese of Mercedes

Mercedanian(us)

The Diocese of Mercedes covers the Soriano and Colonia departments of Uruguay and was erected on 17 December 1960. Its cathedral is dedicated to Our Lady of Mercy and the see is led by Bishop Luis Eduardo Gonzalez Cedres.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
17 December 1960
Latin
Mercedanian(us)
Patron
Our Lady of Mercy (Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes)
Annuario code
001002226

The see in figures

Catholics
182,140
Priests
14
Catholics per priest
13,010
Extent
15,000 km²
Catholics per km²
12

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
Luis Eduardo González

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 de las Mercedes stands in Mercedes, 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:

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.

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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].