Roman Catholic Diocese of Joinville

History

• Established on 17 January 1927 as Diocese of Joinville, on territory split off from the Diocese of Santa Caterina.
• Lost territories repeatedly : on 1968.11.23 to establish the Diocese of Rio do Sul and on 2000.04.19 to establish the Diocese of Blumenau

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Bishops

Episcopal ordinaries

• Pio de Freitas Silveira, Congregation of the Mission , emeritate as Titular Bishop of Voncaria
• *''Apostolic Administrator Inácio Krause, C.M., while Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Curitiba , died 1984; previously only Apostolic Prefect of Shundefu 順德府 , Titular Bishop of Binda as only Apostolic Vicar of Shundefu 順德府 , promoted first Suffragan Bishop of Shunde 順德
• Gregório Warmeling, died 1997
• Orlando Brandes, next Metropolitan Archbishop of Londrina , Metropolitan Archbishop of Aparecida
• Irineu Roque Scherer, previously Bishop of Garanhuns
• Francisco Carlos Bach, previously Bishop of Toledo , Bishop of São José dos Pinhais and Apostolic Administrator of Diocese of Paranaguá .

  Coadjutor bishop

• Inácio João Dal Monte, O.F.M. Cap., did not succeed to see; appointed Bishop of Guaxupé, Minas Gerais