Diocese of Lages

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Lages is a Latin Rite suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of Chapecó 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.

WWW diocesedelages.org.br

Statistics

As per 2015, it pastorally served 332,700 Catholics in the area of 18,152 km², in 25 parishes with 57 priests, 12 deacons, 163 lay religious and 10 seminarians.

History

17 January 1927: Established as Diocese of Lages, on territory split off from the then Diocese of Santa Caterina
It lost territory repeatedly : on 1933.12.09 to establish the Territorial Prelature of Palmas, on 1958.01.14 to establish the Diocese of Chapecó, on 1968.11.23 to establish the Diocese of Caçador and on 1975.06.12 to establish the Diocese of Joaçaba.

Bishops

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