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Diocese of São Félix

Sancti Felicis

Saint Felix do Araguaia is a Latin Church territorial prelature (not a full diocese) in Mato Grosso state, Brazil, erected on 13 May 1969 and historically associated with Bishop Pedro Casaldaliga. It is a suffragan jurisdiction in the ecclesiastical province of Cuiaba; its current bishop-prelate is Lucio Nicoletto.

The see

Rank
Suffragan territorial prelature
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
13 May 1969
Latin
Sancti Felicis
Patron
Our Lady of the Assumption (Nossa Senhora da Assuncao)
Annuario code
001000286

The see in figures

Catholics
155,000
Population
150,000
Priests
24
Catholics per priest
6,458
Extent
150,000 km²
Catholics per km²
1.0

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
Lucio Nicoletto
Born
18 August 1972
Birthplace
Este

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

Prelatial Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption stands in São Félix, 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 Cuiaba

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Cuiaba.

The sees of this province:

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

History

In the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, the Territorial Prelature of São Félix (do Araguaia) (Latin: Praelatura Territorialis Sancti Felicis) is a Roman Catholic territorial prelature, suffragan within the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archbishop of Cuiabá. The city of São Félix do Araguaia holds its cathedral see, the Catedral Prelatícia Nossa Senhora da Assunção.

How to reach it

Diocesan offices
Rua Açucena 20, Sector São Geraldo, 78655-000 Porto Alegre do Norte, MT, Brasil

This see keeps no website of its own, so the address of its diocesan offices is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.

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Sources

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Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.