Diocese of Brownsville Dioecesis Brownsvillensis Diócesis de Brownsville | |
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Location | |
Country | United States |
Territory | Counties of Starr, Willacy, Hidalgo, and Cameron counties in Southern Texas |
Ecclesiastical province | Galveston-Houston |
Coordinates | 25°55′49″N 97°29′04″W / 25.93028°N 97.48444°W |
Statistics | |
Area | 4,226 sq mi (10,950 km2) |
Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2020) 1,377,861 1,171,182 (85.0%) |
Parishes | 72 |
Information | |
Denomination | Catholic |
Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
Rite | Roman Rite |
Established | July 10, 1965 |
Cathedral | Immaculate Conception Cathedral |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Bishop | Daniel E. Flores |
Metropolitan Archbishop | Daniel DiNardo |
Auxiliary Bishops | Mario Alberto Avilés |
Map | |
Website | |
cdob.org |
The Diocese of Brownsville (Latin: Dioecesis Brownsvillensis, Spanish: Diócesis de Brownsville) is a Latin Church diocese in southeastern Texas in the United States.
The Diocese of Brownsville is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston. The diocese's first cathedral church is Immaculate Conception Cathedral in Brownsville, Texas.