Diocese of São Luíz de Cáceres
| Diocese of São Luíz de Cáceres | |
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Country | Brazil |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Cuiabá |
| Diocesan bishop | Jacy Diniz Rocha |
| Emeritus diocesan bishop | José Vieira de Lima GATE |
| founding | 1910 |
| surface | 135,969 km² |
| Parishes | 25 (31.12.2017 / AP2018 ) |
| Residents | 460,950 ( 12/31/2017 / AP2018 ) |
| Catholics | 359,980 ( 12/31/2017 / AP2018 ) |
| proportion of | 78.1% |
| Diocesan priest | 23 (31.12.2017 / AP2018 ) |
| Religious priest | 21 (31.12.2017 / AP2018 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 8,181 |
| Permanent deacons | 2 (31.12.2017 / AP2018 ) |
| Friars | 27 (31.12.2017 / AP2018 ) |
| Religious sisters | 37 (31.12.2017 / AP2018 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | Portuguese |
| cathedral | São Luiz de França Cathedral |
| Website | www.diocesedecaceres.com.br |
The diocese of São Luíz de Cáceres ( Latin Dioecesis Sancti Aloisii de Caceres ) is a Roman Catholic diocese based in Cáceres in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso .
The diocese is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Cuiabá and was founded on April 5, 1910. In 1925 the Amazonas diocese , later the Porto Velho prelature , was spun off; In 1929 the Guajará-Mirim prelature was spun off .
Bishops of São Luíz de Cáceres
- Modesto Augusto Vieira , 1911–1914, then auxiliary bishop in Mariana
- Pierre Louis Marie Galibert , Franciscan (TOR) - Order of the Regulated Tertiary of St. Francis , 1915-1954
- Máximo André Biennès , TOR, 1967–1991
- Paulo Antônio de Conto , 1991–1998, then Bishop of Criciúma
- José Vieira de Lima , TOR, 1998-2008
- Antônio Emidio Vilar , SDB , 2008–2016, then Bishop of São João da Boa Vista
- Jacy Diniz Rocha , since 2017
