Diocese of Ponta de Pedras
| Diocese of Ponta de Pedras | |
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Country | Brazil |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Belém do Pará |
| Diocesan bishop | Teodoro Mendes Tavares CSSp |
| Emeritus diocesan bishop | Alessio Saccardo SJ |
| founding | 1963 |
| surface | 16,557 km² |
| Parishes | 6 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Residents | 149,200 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Catholics | 125,000 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| proportion of | 83.8% |
| Diocesan priest | 15 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 8,333 |
| Religious sisters | 22 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | Portuguese |
| cathedral | Catedral Nossa Senhora da Conceição |
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Ponta de Pedras ( Latin Dioecesis Petrosi Culminis , Portuguese Diocese de Ponta de Pedras ) is in Brazil located Roman Catholic diocese headquartered in Ponta de Pedras in the state of Pará .
history
The diocese of Ponta de Pedras was on June 25, 1963 by Pope Paul VI. from the cession of territory by the Archdiocese of Belém do Pará built as a territorial prelature Ponta de Pedras . The territorial prelature was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Belém do Pará as a suffragan . On October 16, 1979, the territorial prelature of Ponta de Pedras was raised to the diocese by Pope John Paul II with the papal bull Cum Praelaturae .
Ordinaries
Prelates of Ponta de Pedras
- Angelo Maria Rivato SJ , 1965-1979
Bishops of Ponta de Pedras
- Angelo Maria Rivato SJ, 1979-2002
- Alessio Saccardo SJ, 2002-2015
- Teodoro Mendes Tavares CSSp , since 2015