Archdiocese of Diamantina
Archdiocese of Diamantina | |
Basic data | |
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Country | Brazil |
Diocesan bishop | Darci José Nicioli CSsR |
Emeritus diocesan bishop | João Bosco Oliver de Faria |
founding | 1854 |
surface | 45,131 km² |
Parishes | 55 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Residents | 537,762 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Catholics | 471,000 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
proportion of | 87.6% |
Diocesan priest | 73 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Religious priest | 7 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Catholics per priest | 5,888 |
Friars | 8 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Religious sisters | 81 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
rite | Roman rite |
Liturgical language | Portuguese |
cathedral | Catedral Metropolitana Santo Antônio da Sé |
Website | www.arquidiamantina.org |
Suffragan dioceses |
Diocese of Almenara Diocese of Araçuaí Diocese of Guanhães Diocese of Teófilo Otoni |
The Archdiocese of Diamantina ( Latin Archidioecesis Adamantina , Portuguese Arquidiocese de Diamantina ) is in Brazil located Roman Catholic Archdiocese based in Diamantina in the state of Minas Gerais .
history
The diocese Diamantina was on June 6, 1854 by Pope Pius IX. built with the papal bull Gravissimum sollicitudinis from cessions of territory of the diocese of Mariana and subordinated to the archbishopric of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro as a suffragan diocese. On May 1, 1906, the Diocese of Diamantina was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Mariana as a suffragan. The Diocese of Diamantina gave up on December 10, 1910 parts of its territory to establish the Diocese of Montes Claros . Another assignment of territory took place on August 25, 1913 to establish the Araçuaí diocese .
On June 28, 1917, the Diocese of Diamantina was raised to the Archbishopric. The Archdiocese of Diamantina gave up parts of its territory several times in its history to establish new dioceses.
Bishops
Bishops of Diamantina
- João Antônio dos Santos , 1863–1905
- Joaquim Silvério de Souza , 1905–1917
Archbishops of Diamantina
- Joaquim Silvério de Souza, 1917–1933
- Serafim Gomes Jardim da Silva , 1934-1953
- José Newton de Almeida Baptista , 1954–1960, then Bishop of Brasília
- Geraldo de Proença Sigaud SVD , 1960–1980
- Geraldo Majela Reis , 1981-1997
- Paulo Lopes de Faria , 1997-2007
- João Bosco Oliver de Faria , 2007-2016
- Darci José Nicioli CSsR , since 2016