Diocese of Guajará-Mirim
| Diocese of Guajará-Mirim | |
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Country | Brazil |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Porto Velho |
| Diocesan bishop | Benedito Araújo |
| Vicar General | José Élio Dukievicz |
| founding | 1929 |
| surface | 89,700 km² |
| Parishes | 12 (31.12.2013 / AP2014 ) |
| Residents | 242,000 (December 31, 2013 / AP2014 ) |
| Catholics | 145,500 ( 12/31/2013 / AP2014 ) |
| proportion of | 60.1% |
| Diocesan priest | 20 (December 31, 2013 / AP2014 ) |
| Religious priest | 6 (December 31, 2013 / AP2014 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 5,596 |
| Permanent deacons | 4 (December 31, 2013 / AP2014 ) |
| Friars | 7 (December 31, 2013 / AP2014 ) |
| Religious sisters | 59 ( 12/31/2013 / AP2014 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | Portuguese |
| cathedral | Catedral Nossa Senhora do Seringueiro |
| address | Cúria Diocesana Av. Costa Marques 571 78957-000 Guajará-Mirim, RO Brazil |
| Website | http://dioceseguajaramirim.com.br/ |
The Diocese of Guajará-Mirim ( lat. : Dioecesis Guaiaramirensis ) is in Brazil located Roman Catholic diocese based in Guajará-Mirim in the state of Rondônia .
history
The diocese Guajará-Mirim was on March 1, 1929 by Pope Pius XI. established with the papal bull Animarum cura from cessions of territory by the territorial prelature Porto Velho and the diocese of São Luíz de Cáceres as the territorial prelature Guajará-Mirim . On January 3, 1978, the Territorial Prelature Guajará-Mirim gave up parts of their territory to establish the Territorial Prelature Vila Rondônia .
On October 16, 1979 the territorial prelature Guajará-Mirim was raised to the diocese. The diocese of Guajará-Mirim was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Porto Velho as a suffragan on October 4, 1982 .
Ordinaries
Prelates of Guajará-Mirim
- François-Xavier Rey TOR , 1945–1966 (previously, from 1929 to 1946, Apostolic Administrator )
- Luiz Roberto Gomes de Arruda TOR, 1966–1978
Bishops of Guajará-Mirim
- Geraldo Verdier , 1980-2011
- Benedito Araújo , since 2011
See also
Web links
Footnotes
- ↑ Lettre d'Amazonie : Histoire du diocèse , accessed on March 20, 2019.