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Diocese of San José de Mayo

Sancti Iosephi in Uraquaria

The Diocese of San Jose de Mayo covers the San Jose and Flores departments of Uruguay and was erected in 1955. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Montevideo and is led by Bishop Edgardo Fabian Antunez-Percincula Kaenel, S.J., appointed in 2021.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
15 November 1955
Latin
Sancti Iosephi in Uraquaria
Patron
Saint Joseph
Annuario code
001002910

The see in figures

Catholics
85,000
Population
112,401
Catholic share
75.6%

of the people living within its bounds

Priests
20
Catholics per priest
4,250
Extent
11,482 km²
Catholics per km²
7.4

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
Edgardo Fabián Antúnez

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 Basilica de San Jose de Mayo stands in San José de Mayo, 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.

History

Among the Latin Church dioceses of the Catholic church in Uruguay is the Roman Catholic Diocese of San José de Mayo, known in Latin as Dioecesis Sancti Iosephi in Uraquaria.

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].