Roman Catholic Diocese of Lages
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Lages is a Latin rite suffragan diocese in the Ecclesiastical province of Florianópolis in Santa Catarina state, Brazil.
Its cathedral episcopal see is Catedral Nossa Senhora dos Prazeres, dedicated to Our Lady of Joy, in the city of Lages.Statistics
As per 2015, it pastorally served 332,700 Catholics on 18,152 km² in 25 parishes with 57 priests, 12 deacons, 163 lay religious and 10 seminarians.History
Episcopal Ordinaries
- Daniel Henrique Hostin, Order of Friars Minor
- * Auxiliary Bishop : Alfonso Niehues, Titular Bishop of Eurœa in Epiro ; next Titular Archbishop of Aptuca as Coadjutor Archbishop of Florianópolis , succeeding as Metropolitan Archbishop of Florianópolis, died 1993
- * Auxiliary Bishop : Carlos Schmitt, O.F.M., Titular Bishop of Sufar, died 2006; previously Bishop of Dourados
- Honorato Piazera, Dehonians , died 1990; previously Titular Bishop of Termessus as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro , Bishop of Diocese of Nova Iguaçu , Titular Bishop of Castellum Iabar as Coadjutor Bishop of Lages
- João Oneres Marchiori, died 2017; previously Bishop of Caçador , Coadjutor Bishop of Lages
- Irineu Andreassa, O.F.M., next Bishop of Ituiutaba
- Guilherme Antônio Werlang, Missionaries of the Holy Family ; previously Bishop of Ipameri .
Coadjutor bishops
- Alfonso Niehues, did not succeed to see; appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Florianópolis, Santa Catarina
- Honorato Piazera, S.C.I.
- João Oneres Marchiori
Auxiliary bishop
- Carlos Stanislau Schmitt, O.F.M.
Other priest of this diocese who became bishop
- Orlando Brandes, appointed Bishop of Joinville in 1994
