Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Joinville explained

Jurisdiction:Archdiocese
Joinville
Latin:Archidioecesis Ioinvillensis
Local:Arquidiocese de Joinville
Country: Brazil
Sui Iuris Church:Latin Church
Rite:Roman Rite
Established:17 January 1927 (years ago)
Cathedral:Cathedral of St Francis Xavier in Joinville
Area Km2:9,478
Population:986,000
Population As Of:2006
Catholics:641,000
Catholics Percent:65.0
Metro Archbishop:Francisco Carlos Bach
Map:File:Diocese de Joinville.svg
Website:www.diocesejoinville.com.br

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Joinville (la|Archidioecesis Ioinvillensis) is the metropolitan of an ecclesiastical province in Santa Catarina, in the Southern Region of Brazil. It was a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of Florianópolis, also in Santa Catarina, before the elevation to its current status in 2024.

Its cathedral is Catedral São Francisco Xavier, dedicated to saint Francis Xavier, in the city of Joinville.

History

Statistics

As per 2014, it pastorally served 744,219 Catholics (65.0% of 1,144,952 total) on 9,508 km2 in 53 parishes and 5 missions with 118 priests (64 diocesan, 54 religious), 55 deacons, 228 lay religious (104 brothers, 124 sisters) and 26 seminarians.

Bishops

(Latin Church)

Episcopal ordinaries

Suffragan Bishops of Joinville
Metropolitan archbishops of Joinville

Coadjutor bishop

See also

Sources and external links

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