Territorial prelature Paranatinga

Territorial prelature Paranatinga
Basic data
Country	Brazil
Metropolitan bishopric	Archdiocese of Cuiabá
prelate	Prelature repealed
surface	last 61,386 km²
Residents	62,180 ( 2002 )
Catholics	53,200 ( 2002 )
proportion of	85.6%
rite	Roman rite
Liturgical language	Portuguese
cathedral	Catedral Prelatícia São Francisco Xavier

The territorial prelate Paranatinga ( lat. : Territorialis Praelatura Paranatinguensis ) was in Brazil located Roman Catholic territorial prelate based in Paranatinga in the state of Mato Grosso . In the course of the reorganization of the ecclesiastical province of Cuiabá, it went up on June 25, 2014 in the newly established diocese Primavera do Leste-Paranatinga .

history

The territorial prelature Paranatinga was established on December 23, 1997 by Pope John Paul II with the Apostolic Constitution Ecclesia sancta from cedings of the dioceses of Barra do Garças , Rondonópolis and Sinop and subordinated to the Archdiocese of Cuiabá as a suffragan .

On June 25, 2014, Pope Francis established the diocese Primavera do Leste-Paranatinga , into which the territorial prelature was incorporated.

Prelates of Paranatinga

• Vital Chitolina SCI , 1997–2011, then Bishop of Diamantino
• Sedis vacancy , 2011–2014

See also

• List of Roman Catholic Dioceses
• Roman Catholic Church in Brazil

Web links

• Entry on Territorial Prelature Paranatinga on catholic-hierarchy.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ioannes Paulus II: Const. Apost. Ecclesia sancta , AAS 90 (1998), n.3, p. 193ff.
2. ↑ Ristrutturazione della Provincia di Ecclesiastica Cuiabá (Brasile) ( restructuring of the ecclesiastical province of Cuiabá (Brazil) ), in: Holy See Press Office, Daily Bulletin of June 25, 2014