Diocese of Minas
The Diocese of Minas is a former Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Uruguay. When the final bishop of the diocese, Jaime Rafael Fuentes, retired in 2020, the Diocese of Minas was united with the Diocese of Maldonado-Punta del Este to form the Diocese of Maldonado-Punta del Este-Minas.
History
The diocese was erected in 1960, and was a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Montevideo. This diocese coved the department of Lavalleja and northern portions of the departments of Rocha and Maldonado. Its cathedra was in the Cathedral of Minas.The final bishop was Jaime Rafael Fuentes, who was appointed in 2010.
Bishops
Ordinaries
- José Maria Cavallero †
- Edmondo Quaglia Martínez †
- Carlos Arturo Mullín Nocetti, S.J. †
- Victor Gil Lechoza †
- Rodolfo Wirz, as Apostolic administrator
- Francisco Domingo Barbosa Da Silveira †
- Rodolfo Wirz, as Apostolic administrator
- Jaime Rafael Fuentes
Auxiliary bishop
- Carlos Arturo Mullín Nocetti, S.J. †, appointed Bishop here
Other priest of this diocese who became bishop
- Pablo Alfonso Jourdán Alvariza, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Montevideo in 2018