Roman Catholic Diocese of São José dos Pinhais

The Diocese of São José dos Pinhais (Latin: Dioecesis Sancti Iosephi Pinealensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or diocese of the Catholic Church in Brazil. It is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Curitiba.

Diocese of São José dos Pinhais

Dioecesis Sancti Iosephi Pinealensis

Diocese de São José dos Pinhais
Cathedral of St. Joseph
Location
CountryBrazil
Ecclesiastical provinceCuritiba
Statistics
Area7,172 km2 (2,769 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics
(as of 2010)
725,000
517,000 (71.3%)
Information
DenominationCatholic Church
Sui iuris churchLatin Church
RiteRoman Rite
Established6 December 2006 (16 years ago)
CathedralCathedral of St Joseph in São José dos Pinhais
Current leadership
PopeFrancis
BishopFrancisco Carlos Bach
Website
www.diocesesjp.org.br

Its cathedral is Catedral de São José, dedicated to Saint Joseph, in the city of São José dos Pinhais in Paraná state.

Statistics

As per 2015, it pastorally served 667,752 Catholics (79.9% of 835,575 total) on 7,186 km² in 38 parishes with 75 priests (34 diocesan, 41 religious), 45 deacons, 190 lay religious (85 brothers, 105 sisters) and 10 seminarians.

History

  • Established on 6 December 2006 as Diocese of São José dos Pinhais, on territory split off from the Archdiocese of Curitiba, which remains its Metropolitan.

Bishops



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