Roman Catholic Diocese of Santíssima Conceição do Araguaia
Diocese of Santíssima Conceição do Araguaia Dioecesis Sanctissimae Conceptionis de Araguaia Diocese de Santíssima Conceição do Araguaia | |
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Location | |
Country | Brazil |
Ecclesiastical province | Belém do Pará |
Metropolitan | Belém do Pará |
Statistics | |
Area | 52,500 km2 (20,300 sq mi) |
Population - Total - Catholics (including non-members) | (as of 2010) 291,000 225,000 (77.3%) |
Information | |
Rite | Latin Rite |
Established | 18 July 1911 (110 years ago) |
Cathedral | Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Conceição do Araguaia |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Bishop | |
Metropolitan Archbishop | Alberto Taveira Corrêa |
Website | |
Website of the Diocese |
The Roman Catholic Diocese of (Santíssima) Conceição do Araguaia (Latin: Dioecesis Sanctissimae Conceptionis de Araguaia) is a Latin suffragan diocese of the Roman Catholic church, in the Ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan of Belém do Pará in Brazil.
Its cathedral see is Catedral Nossa Senhora da Conceição ('Our Lady of (Immaculate) Conception'), in the city of Conceição do Araguaia.
History[]
- Established on July 18, 1911 as Territorial Prelature of (Santíssima) Conceição do Araguaia, on territory split off from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Belém do Pará (then and again its Metropolitan)
- Lost territory twice : to establish the Territorial Prelature of Xingu on 16 August 1934 and again to establish the Territorial Prelature of São Félix on 13 May 1969
- December 20, 1969: Suppressed, losing its territory to the Territorial Prelature of Marabá
- March 27, 1976: Restored as Territorial Prelature of Santíssima Conceição do Araguaia from the Territorial Prelature of Cristalândia and Territorial Prelature of Marabá
- October 16, 1979: Promoted as Diocese of Santíssima Conceição do Araguaia
Ordinaries[]
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(all Roman rite; mostly missionary members of Latin congregations)
- Territorial (Bishop-)Prelates of Santíssima Conceição do Araguaia
- Bishop-prelate , Dominicans (O.P.), Titular Bishop of Verinopolis (1912.08.26 – 1920.07.30); later Bishop of Porto Nacional (Brazil) (1920.07.30 – 1933.12.14)
- , O.P., first as apostolic administrator (1920 – 1924.12.18),
- then as Bishop-Prelate (1924.12.18 – 1945.12.19), Titular Bishop of Platæa (1924.12.18 – 1945.12.19)
- Bishop Estêvão Cardoso de Avellar, O.P. (1976.03.27 – 1978.03.20)
- Bishop , O.P., first as Apostolic Administrator (1948.01.02 – 1951.02.20)
- then as Bishop-prelate (1951.02.20 – 1969.12.20), Titular Bishop of Lunda (1951.02.20 – 1981.08.21); later Bishop-Prelate of the then Marabá (Brazil) (1969.12.20 – 1976.11.10)
- prelature suppressed 1969-1976
- Bishop-prelate Patrício José Hanrahan, Redemptorists (C.Ss.R.) (1979.01.29 – 1979.10.16 see below)
- Diocesan Bishops of Santíssima Conceição do Araguaia
- , C.Ss.R. ( see above 1979.10.16 – 1993.05.25)
- (1995.12.27 – 2004.12.29), later Bishop of Macapá (Brazil) (2004.12.29 – ...)
- Dominique Marie Jean Denis You (2006.02.08 – present)
Source and external links[]
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- Roman Catholic dioceses in Brazil
- Christian organizations established in 1911
- Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Belém do Pará
- Roman Catholic dioceses and prelatures established in the 20th century
- Brazilian Roman Catholic diocese stubs