UBERABA, DIOCESE of. — City and diocese in the State of Minas Gerais (Brazil).
It has an area of 92,000 sq. km., with a population of 812,000 inhabitants, of whom 810,000 are Catholics. It has 44 parishes, with 39 diocesan priests and 22 religious priests, a minor seminary, 12 male and 22 female religious communities.
The diocese was created by a consistorial decree of 29
November 1907, under the title of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus and as a suffragan of the archdiocese of Mariana; by another consistorial decree of 1 February 1924, it was transferred by Pope Pius XI to the archdiocese of Belo Horizonte. Its first bishop was Msgr. Edoardo de Silva, who died in 1924.
BIBL.: Ann. Pont. 1953, p. 437; O Brasil Católico 1947, Juiz de Fora 1947, pp. 443 ff. Virginio Battezzati