Diocese of Garanhuns
| Diocese of Garanhuns | |
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Country | Brazil |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Olinda e Recife |
| Diocesan bishop | Paulo Jackson Nóbrega de Sousa |
| founding | 1918 |
| surface | 8,734 km² |
| Parishes | 33 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Residents | 677,146 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Catholics | 619,000 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| proportion of | 91.4% |
| Diocesan priest | 46 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Religious priest | 18 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 9,672 |
| Permanent deacons | 7 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Friars | 26 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Religious sisters | 78 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | Portuguese |
| cathedral | Catedral Santo Antônio |
| Website | http://www.diocesegaranhuns.org/site/ |
The Diocese of Garanhuns ( Latin Dioecesis Garanhunensis , Portuguese Diocese de Garanhuns ) is in Brazil located Roman Catholic diocese based in Garanhuns in the state of Pernambuco .
history
The diocese Garanhuns was on August 2, 1918 by Pope Benedict XV. built from cession of territory of the Archdiocese of Olinda e Recife and subordinated to this as a suffragan . On January 13, 1962, the Diocese of Garanhuns gave up parts of its territory to establish the Diocese of Palmares .
Bishops of Garanhuns
- João Tavares de Moura , 1919–1928
- Manoel Antônio de Paiva , 1929-1937
- Mário de Miranda Vilas-Boas , 1938–1944, then Archbishop of Belém do Pará
- Juvéncio de Brito , 1945–1954
- Francisco Expedito Lopes , 1954-1957
- José Adelino Dantas , 1958–1967, then Bishop of Ruy Barbosa
- Milton Corrêa Pereira , 1967–1973, then Coadjutor Archbishop of Manaus
- Tiago Postma , 1974-1995
- Irineu Roque Scherer , 1998–2007, then Bishop of Joinville
- Fernando José Monteiro Guimarães CSsR , 2008–2014, then military archbishop of Brazil
- Paulo Jackson Nóbrega de Sousa , since 2015