Diocese of São Luís de Montes Belos
Sancti Aloisii de Montes Belos
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · São Luís de Montes Belos, Brazil
Latin Catholic diocese in Goiás, Brazil, established as a territorial prelature in 1961 and raised to a diocese in 1981. It is suffragan to the Archdiocese of Goiânia, with its cathedral dedicated to Saint Aloysius Gonzaga.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 25 November 1961
- Latin
- Sancti Aloisii de Montes Belos
- Patron
- Saint Aloysius Gonzaga
- Annuario code
- 001002995
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 207,283
- Population
- 294,008
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 70.5%
- Priests
- 39
- Catholics per priest
- 5,315
- Extent
- 42,671 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 4.9
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
- Lindomar Rocha Mota
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 São Luís Gonzaga stands in São Luís de Montes Belos, 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 Goiânia
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Goiânia.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of AnápolisAnápolis
- Diocese of GoiásGoiás
- Archdiocese of GoiâniaGoiânia
- Diocese of ItumbiaraItumbiara
- Diocese of JataíJataí
- Diocese of Rubiataba–MozarlândiaRubiataba–Mozarlândia
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Centred on the city of São Luís de Montes Belos, this diocese (Latin: Dioecesis Sancti Aloisii de Montes Belos) forms part of the ecclesiastical province of Goiânia in Brazil.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Cúria Diocesana, Rua Cidade de Goiás 500, 76050-342 São Luís de Montes Belos, GO, Brasil
- Telephone
- [064]98417-0016
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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Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.