Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. IX, 1952 Ecclesiastical hierarchy Patriarchates, archdioceses, dioceses, suppressed dioceses

Pouso Alegre

By Virginio Battezzati

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POUSO ALEGRE. - City and diocese in the State of Minas Gerais in Brazil. It has a population of 530,000 inhabitants, of whom 525,000 are Catholics, distributed in 34 parishes, served by 36 diocesan priests and 16 regulars; it has a seminary, 3 male religious communities and 5 female ones (Ann. Pont., 1952, p. 328).

The diocese was created by Pope Leo XIII with the bull Regio latissime potens of 4 August 1900, by dismemberment from the dioceses of S. Paulo and Mariana. It was first a suffragan of Rio de Janeiro, then from 1906 of Mariana. On 3 February 1916 a part of its territory was dismembered to create the new diocese of Guaxupé. The first bishop was Msgr. J. Nery, transferred in 1908 to Campinas. The Cathedral is dedicated to Senhor Bom Jesus dos Martires; the diocese has St. Sebastian as its patron.

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BIBL.: AAS, 8 (1916), pp. 62-63; G. B. Lehmann, O Brasil Católico 1947, Juiz de Fora 1947, pp. 317-21.

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Battezzati, Virginio. “Pouso Alegre.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IX, col. 1861. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952. https://azioneromana.com/article/pouso-alegre.

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Battezzati, Virginio. “Pouso Alegre.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IX, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952, col. 1861. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/pouso-alegre.

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  author    = {Battezzati, Virginio},
  title     = {Pouso Alegre},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {IX},
  pages     = {1861},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1952},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/pouso-alegre}
}

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