Roman Catholic Diocese of Uruguaiana
The Roman Catholic diocese of Uruguaiana is a Latin rite suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Santa Maria in Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil.
Its cathedral episcopal see is Catedral Senhora Sant’Ana, dedicated to St. Anne, in Uruguaiana.History
As per 2014, it pastorally served 365,000 Catholics on in 16 parishes and 286 missions with 26 priests, 63 lay religious and 10 seminarians.Episcopal ordinaries
- Hermeto José Pinheiro
- Jose Newton de Almeida Baptista : 10 June 1944, next Metropolitan Archbishop of Diamantina ; Archbishop-Bishop of Brasília , last Archbishop Military Vicar of Brazil , Metropolitan Archbishop of Brasília , first Archbishop Military Ordinary of Brazil , died 2001.
- Luiz Felipe de Nadal
- Augusto Petró, died 2008; previously Bishop of Vacaria
- Pedro Ercílio Simon, previously Coadjutor Bishop of Cruz Alta succeeding as Bishop of Passo Fundo, promoted first Metropolitan Archbishop of Passo Fundo
- Ângelo Domingos Salvador, Capuchin Franciscans , previously Titular Bishop of Selia as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of São Salvador da Bahia , Bishop-Prelate of Territorial Prelature of Coxim , Bishop of Cachoeira do Sul
- Aloísio Alberto Dilli, Order of Friars Minor , next Bishop of Santa Cruz do Sul
- José Mário Scalon Angonese.
It has had no auxiliary bishops.
