Diocese of Rubiataba-Mozarlândia
| Diocese of Rubiataba-Mozarlândia | |
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Country | Brazil |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Goiânia |
| Diocesan bishop | Sedis vacancy |
| Emeritus diocesan bishop | José Carlos de Oliveira CSsR |
| founding | 1966 |
| surface | 26,697 km² |
| Parishes | 13 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
| Residents | 127,900 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
| Catholics | 94,400 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
| proportion of | 73.8% |
| Diocesan priest | 14 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
| Religious priest | 2 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 5,900 |
| Friars | 2 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
| Religious sisters | 16 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | Portuguese |
| cathedral | Catedral Nossa Senhora da Glória |
| Co-cathedral | Co-Catedral Nossa Senhora do Perpétuo Socorro |
| Website | http://www.cnbbco.org.br/diocese_detalhe.php?id_diocese |
The diocese Rubiataba-Mozarlândia ( Latin Dioecesis Rubiatabensis-Mozarlandensis , Portuguese Diocese de Rubiataba-Mozarlândia ) is in Brazil located Roman Catholic diocese based in Mozarlândia in the state of Goiás .
history
Pope Paul VI founded with the Apostolic Constitution De animarum utilitate on October 11, 1966 the territorial prelature Rubiataba from cessions of territory of the Archdiocese of Goiânia , to which it was also subordinated as a suffragan diocese.
On April 18, 1979, it took the name, Territorial Prelature Rubiataba-Mozarlândia. With the bull Cum prelaturae it was raised to the diocese on October 16 of the same year.
territory
The Rubiataba-Mozarlândia diocese includes the parishes of Araguapaz , Aruanã , Crixás , Faina , Matrinchã , Morro Agudo de Goiás , Mozarlândia , Mundo Novo , Nova América , Nova Crixás , Rubiataba and Uirapuru of the state of Goiás.
Ordinaries
Prelate of Rubiataba
- Juvenal Roriz CSsR (October 27, 1966 - May 5, 1978, then Archbishop of Juiz de Fora )
Prelate of Rubiataba-Mozarlândia
- José Carlos de Oliveira CSsR (September 14, 1979 - October 16, 1979)
Bishops of Rubiataba-Mozarlândia
- José Carlos de Oliveira CSsR (October 16, 1979 - February 27, 2008)
-
Adair José Guimarães (February 27, 2008 - February 27, 2019, then Bishop of Formosa )
- Sedis vacancy since February 27, 2019
See also
Footnotes
- ↑ Centro de Estatística Religiosa e Investigações Sociais (ed.): Anuário Católico do Brasil , edition 2012. Rio de Janeiro 2012. ISSN 0103-4464 . P. 952.
Web links
- Entry for Diocese of Rubiataba-Mozarlândia on catholic-hierarchy.org
- Entry on Diocese of Rubiataba-Mozarlândia on gcatholic.org (English)