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Roman Catholic Diocese of Formosa, Brazil

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Rite
  
Latin Rite

Area
  
51,657 km²

Country
  
Brazil

Pope
  
Francis

Phone
  
+55 61 3631-8837

Metropolitan archbishop
  
Sérgio da Rocha

Roman Catholic Diocese of Formosa, Brazil

Population - Total - Catholics
  
(as of 2006) 294,000 230,000 (78.2%)

Established
  
26 March 1956 (60 years ago)

Cathedral
  
Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Formosa, Goiás

Address
  
R. Visc. de Porto Seguro, 111 - St. Central, Formosa - GO, 73801-010, Brazil

Ecclesiastical province
  
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Brasília

Similar
  
Catedral Formosa, Igreja Evangélica Assemblé, Igreja Batista Betel de, Congreg Cristã no Brasil, Igreja Presbiteri de Formo

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Formosa (Latin: Dioecesis Formosensis) is a Latin suffragan diocese in the Ecclesiastical province of Brasília in central Brazil.

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Its cathedral episcopal see is Catedral Nossa Senhora da Imaculada Conceição, dedicated to Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, in the city of Formosa, in the state of Goiás, central Brazil.

History

  • Established on March 26, 1956 as the Territorial Prelature of Formosa, on territory split off from the then Archdiocese of Goiás (at the same time demoted to a suffragan itself) and from the suppressed Territorial Prelature of São José de Alto Tocantins
  • Promoted on October 16, 1979 as the Diocese of Formosa.

    • Statistics

    As per 2014, it pastorally serves 256,900 Catholics (73.5% of 349,500 total) on 47,604 km² in 27 parishes and 240 missions with 37 priests (diocesan), 52 lay religious (4 brothers, 48 sisters) and 14 seminarians.

    Ordinaries

    (all Roman rite)

    Bishop-Prelates of Formosa
  • Victor João Herman José Tielbeek, Picpus Fathers (SS.CC.) (February 4, 1961 - October 16, 1979 see below), Titular Bishop of Tipasa in Numidia (1961.02.04 – 1978.05.26), born 1919.08.16 in the Netherlands
    • Suffragan Bishops of Formosa
  • Victor João Herman José Tielbeek, SS.CC. (see above October 16, 1979 - death December 24, 1997)
  • João Casimiro Wilk, Conventual Franciscans (O.F.M. Conv.) (January 28, 1998 - June 9, 2006), transferred Bishop of Anápolis (Brazil) (2004.06.09 – ...), born Poland 1951.09.18
  • Paulo Roberto Beloto (November 16, 2005 – 2013.10.23), first Brazilian incumbent; transferred Bishop of Franca (Brazil) (2013.10.23 – ...)
  • José Ronaldo Ribeiro (2014.09.24 – ...), previously Bishop of Janaúba (Brazil) (2007.06.06 – 2014.09.24)

    • References

    Roman Catholic Diocese of Formosa, Brazil Wikipedia
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