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Diocese of Pelotas

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(PELOTASENSIS)

Located in Brazil, suffragan to Porto Alegre. By a decree of Pius X, dated 15 Aug., 1910, the See of São Pedro do Rio Grande was erected into an archbishopric under the title of Porto Alegre and given four suffragans, three of which were detached from the old diocese. One of these, Pelotas, was formed from twenty-four parishes in the south-eastern portion of Rio Grande do Sul. It includes most of the territory lying near the Lagõa Mirí, and the lower half of the Lagõa dos Patõs. The cathedral church of the new diocese dedicated to St. Francis of Paula, is at Pelotas, a well-constructed, handsome city, situated on the São Gonçalo. Pelotas, a centre of commercial activity, especially in the cattle trade, contains about 25,000 inhabitants, and has a Jesuit college. Rio Grande, its seaport, twenty-six miles to the south-east, has about 20,000 inhabitants. The other chief centres of population are at Bagé, São Lourenço, São José do Norte, and Boqueirão. The population is almost entirely Catholic.

Sources

GALANTI, Compendio de historia do Brazil, III, IV (São Paulo, 1902-05).

Bibliography Information
Obstat, Nihil. Lafort, Remy, Censor. Entry for 'Diocese of Pelotas'. The Catholic Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tce/​d/diocese-of-pelotas.html. Robert Appleton Company. New York. 1914.
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