Diocese of Ponta de Pedras
Diocese of Ponta de Pedras | |
Basic data | |
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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