Diocese of Barra do Garças
| Diocese of Barra do Garças | |
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Country | Brazil |
| Diocesan bishop | Protógenes José Luft SdC |
| founding | 1982 |
| surface | 64,236 km² |
| Parishes | 18 (2014) |
| Residents | 155,000 (2014) |
| Catholics | 124,000 (2014) |
| proportion of | 80% |
| Diocesan priest | 23 (2014) |
| Religious priest | 7 (2014) |
| Catholics per priest | 4.133 |
| Religious sisters | 12 (2014) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | Portuguese |
| cathedral | Catedral Nossa Senhora da Guia |
| Website | http://diocesebarradogarcas.org/ |
The Diocese of Barra do Garças ( Latin : Dioecesis Barragartiensis ) is a Roman Catholic diocese based in Barra do Garças in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso .
territory
The diocese includes the following parishes: Barra do Garças , Água Boa , Araguaiana , Araguainha , Canarana , Cocalinho , General Carneiro , Nova Nazaré , Nova Xavantina , Pontal do Araguaia , Ponte Branca , Ribeirãozinho and Torixoréu .
history
The diocese of Barra do Garças was founded on February 27, 1982 with the Apostolic Constitution Cum in pastorali munere by Pope John Paul II from the diocese of Guiratinga . On December 23, 1997, the diocese gave up part of its territory for the establishment of the Paranatinga territorial prelature .
It is now a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Cuiabá .
Bishops
- Antônio Sarto SDB , 1982-2001
- Protógenes José Luft SdC , 2000–2001 coadjutor, since 2001
statistics
| year | population | priest | Permanent deacons | Religious | Parishes | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Catholics | Residents | % | Total number | Diocesan priest | Religious priest | Catholics per priest | Friars | Religious sisters | |||
| 1990 | 116,000 | 127,000 | 91.3 | 19th | 2 | 17th | 6.105 | 2 | 22nd | 62 | 13 |
| 1999 | 143,900 | 177,000 | 81.3 | 22nd | 4th | 18th | 6,540 | 1 | 23 | 70 | 13 |
| 2000 | 150,700 | 185.220 | 81.4 | 19th | 4th | 15th | 7,931 | 1 | 21st | 64 | 13 |
| 2002 | 95,958 | 144.243 | 66.5 | 16 | 2 | 14th | 5,997 | 9 | 27 | 73 | 14th |
| 2003 | 85.094 | 121,563 | 70.0 | 18th | 3 | 15th | 4,727 | 25th | 63 | 14th | |
| 2004 | 98,222 | 122,778 | 80.0 | 17th | 3 | 14th | 5,777 | 19th | 56 | 14th | |
| 2006 | 145,549 | 186,349 | 78.1 | 19th | 4th | 15th | 7,660 | 17th | 66 | 14th | |
| 2014 | 124,000 | 155,000 | 80.0 | 30th | 23 | 7th | 4.133 | 12 | 18th | ||
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ristrutturazione della Provincia di Ecclesiastica Cuiabá (Brasile) ( restructuring of the ecclesiastical province of Cuiabá (Brazil) ), in: Holy See Press Office, Daily Bulletin of June 25, 2014