Roman Catholic Diocese of São José dos Pinhais

Diocese of São José dos Pinhais

*Dioecesis Sancti Iosephi Pinealensis*

Diocese de São José dos Pinhais
Diocese of São José dos Pinhais; Dioecesis Sancti Iosephi Pinealensis; Diocese de São José dos Pinhais
	Cathedral of St. Joseph
Location
Country	Brazil
Ecclesiastical province	Curitiba
Metropolitan	Curitiba
Statistics
Area	7,172 km2 (2,769 sq mi)
Population; - Total; - Catholics (including non-members)	(as of 2010); 725,000; 517,000 (71.3%)
Information
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	6 December 2006 (15 years ago)
Cathedral	Cathedral of St Joseph in São José dos Pinhais
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop
Metropolitan Archbishop	José Antônio Peruzzo
Website
	www.diocesesjp.org.br

The Roman Catholic Diocese of São José dos Pinhais (Latin: Dioecesis Sancti Iosephi Pinealensis) is a Latin rite diocese in the Ecclesiastical province of Curitiba in southern Brazil.

Its see 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.

Episcopal Ordinaries[]

(all native Brazilians and Roman Rite)

Ladislau Biernaski, Lazarists (C.M.) (6 December 2006 – death 13 February 2012), previously Titular Bishop of Tetci (1979.04.19 – 2006.12.06) and Auxiliary Bishop of Curitiba (1979.04.19 – 2006.12.06)
(3 October 2012 – 2017.04.19), also Apostolic Administrator of Roman Catholic Diocese of Paranaguá (2015.04.11 – 2015.11.25); previously Bishop of Toledo (Brazil) (2005.07.27 – 2012.10.03); next Bishop of Joinville (2017.04.19 – ...)
Celso Antônio Marchiori (2017.12.13 – ...), previously Bishop of Apucarana) (2009.07.08 – 2017.12.13).

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