Roman Catholic Diocese of Bragança do Pará

Diocese of Bragança do Pará

*Dioecesis Brigantiensis de Para*

Diocese de Bragança do Pará
Diocese of Bragança do Pará; Dioecesis Brigantiensis de Para; Diocese de Bragança do Pará
	Cathedral of Our Lady of the Rosary
Location
Country	Brazil
Ecclesiastical province	Belém do Pará
Metropolitan	Belém do Pará
Statistics
Area	68,316 km2 (26,377 sq mi)
Population; - Total; - Catholics (including non-members)	(as of 2012); 1,038,000; 734,000 (70.7%)
Parishes	25
Information
Rite	Latin Rite
Established	14 April 1928 (93 years ago)
Cathedral	Cathedral of Our lady of the Rosary in Bragança, Pará
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	, O.A.R.
Metropolitan Archbishop	Alberto Taveira Corrêa
Bishops emeritus	Luigi Ferrando
Website
	www.diocesedebraganca.com

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Bragança do Pará (Latin: Dioecesis Brigantiensis de Para) is a diocese located in the city of in the Ecclesiastical province of Belém do Pará in Brazil.

History[]

April 14, 1928: Established as Territorial Prelature of Gurupi from the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Belém do Pará
February 3, 1934: Renamed as Territorial Prelature of Guamá
October 16, 1979: Promoted as Diocese of Guamá
October 13, 1981: Renamed as Diocese of Bragança do Pará

Bishops[]

Prelates of Guamá (Latin Rite)
- , B. (1940.08.10 – 1977.02.05)
Bishops of Guamá (Latin Rite)
- Miguel Maria Giambelli, B. (1980.04.21 – 1981.10.13)
Bishops of Bragança do Pará (Latin Rite)
- Miguel Maria Giambelli, B. (1981.10.13 – 1996.04.10)
- Luigi Ferrando (1996.04.10 – 2016.08.17)
- , O.A.R. (2016.08.17 - )

Other priest of this diocese who became bishop[]

, appointed Bishop of Palmeira dos Índios, Alagoas in 2018

Sources[]

Coordinates: 1°03′20″S 46°45′58″W / 1.0555°S 46.7661°W / -1.0555; -46.7661

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