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Suffragan diocese San José de Mayo, Uruguay

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.

On the map

Esri
San José de Mayo, Uruguay, drawn to the town rather than to the door: the register holds no verified address for its cathedral.

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Established
1955
Catholics
85,000
Priests
20
Territory
11,482 km²

Parishes and churches

13 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.

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The bishop

Bishop
Edgardo Fabián Antúnez

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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.

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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.

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