Archdiocese of Goiânia

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Archdiocese of Goiânia
Basic data
Country Brazil
Diocesan bishop Washington Cruz CP
Auxiliary bishop Levi Bonatto
Moacir Silva Arantes
Vicar General João James Daiber
Rubens Sodré Miranda CSS
founding 1956
surface 13,320 km²
Parishes 117 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Residents 2,445,902 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Catholics 1,265,042 (2016 / AP 2017 )
proportion of 51.7%
Diocesan priest 90 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Religious priest 116 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Catholics per priest 6.141
Permanent deacons 43 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Friars 200 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Religious sisters 333 (2016 / AP 2017 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language Portuguese
cathedral Catedral Metropolitana Nossa Senhora Auxiliadora
Website www.arquidiocesedegoiania.org.br
Suffragan dioceses Diocese of Anápolis
Diocese of Goiás
Diocese of Ipameri
Diocese of Itumbiara
Diocese of Jataí
Diocese of Rubiataba-Mozarlândia
Diocese of São Luís de Montes Belos

The Archdiocese of Goiânia ( Latin Archidioecesis Goianiensis , Portuguese Arquidiocese de Goiânia ) is in Brazil located Roman Catholic archdiocese , based in Goiânia in the state of Goiás .

history

The Archdiocese of Goiânia was on March 26, 1956 by Pope Pius XII. built with the Apostolic Constitution Sanctissima Christi Voluntas from cessions of territory from the Archdiocese of Goiás . On January 16, 1960, the Archdiocese of Goiânia gave up parts of its territory to establish the Diocese of Brasília . Another assignment of territory took place on November 25, 1961 to establish the territorial prelature of São Luís de Montes Belos . The Archdiocese of Goiânia gave up on October 11, 1966 parts of its territory to establish the dioceses of Anápolis , Ipameri and Itumbiara .

Archbishops of Goiânia

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pius XII: Const. Apost. Sanctissima Christi Voluntas , AAS 49 (1957), n.4, p. 184ff.