Diocese of Barra do Garças
Barren(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Barra do Garças, Brazil
The Diocese of Barra do Garças is a Latin Church diocese in Mato Grosso, Brazil, erected on 27 February 1982. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Cuiabá, currently led by Bishop Paulo Renato Fernandes Gonçalves de Campos.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 20 October 1913
- Latin
- Barren(sis)
- Patron
- Our Lady of Guidance (Nossa Senhora da Guia)
- Annuario code
- 001000838
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 159,500
- Population
- 204,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 78.2%
- Priests
- 27
- Catholics per priest
- 5,907
- Extent
- 59,840 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 2.7
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Paulo Renato Fernandes Gonçalves de Campos
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
Cathedral of Our Lady of Guidance stands in Barra do Garças, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
The province of Cuiabá
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Cuiabá.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of DiamantinoDiamantino
- Diocese of Primavera do Leste–ParanatingaPrimavera do Leste–Paranatinga
- Diocese of Rondonópolis–GuiratingaRondonópolis–Guiratinga
- Diocese of SinopSinop
- Diocese of São Luiz de CáceresSão Luiz de Cáceres
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Barra do Garças, a city in the ecclesiastical province of Cuiabá in Brazil, is the seat of this diocese, Dioecesis Barragartiensis in Latin.
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The see's own website · Wikipedia
Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.