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Diocese of Rondonópolis–Guiratinga

Rondonopolitan(us)-Guiratingen(sis)

Latin Church diocese in Rondonópolis, Mato Grosso, tracing to a 1940 territorial prelature and renamed Diocese of Rondonópolis-Guiratinga in 2014. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Cuiabá.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
1940
Latin
Rondonopolitan(us)-Guiratingen(sis)
Patron
Sagrado Coração de Jesus, Saint John the Baptist
Annuario code
001002768

The see in figures

Catholics
340,000
Population
444,800
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
76.4%
Priests
37
Catholics per priest
9,189
Extent
89,666 km²
Catholics per km²
3.8

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
Maurício da Silva Jardim
Birthplace
Sapucaia do Sul

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

Catedral Santa Cruz stands in Rondonópolis–Guiratinga, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

Its co-cathedral is Co-Catedral São João Batista, Guiratinga.

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:

On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.

History

Part of the ecclesiastical province of Cuiabá in Brazil, this diocese (Latin: Dioecesis Rondonopolitanus--Guiratingensis) has its seat in the city of Rondonópolis.

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Sources

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.