Roman Catholic Diocese of Bragança do Pará

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Bragança do Pará (Latin: Dioecesis Brigantiensis de Para) is a diocese located in the city of Bragança do Pará in the ecclesiastical province of Belém do Pará in Brazil.

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Cathedral of Our Lady of the Rosary
Location
Country	Brazil
Ecclesiastical province	Belém do Pará
Metropolitan	Belém do Pará
Statistics
Area	68,316 km2 (26,377 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2012) 1,038,000 734,000 (70.7%)
Parishes	25
Information
Rite	Latin Rite
Established	14 April 1928 (96 years ago)
Cathedral	Cathedral of Our lady of the Rosary in Bragança, Pará
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Jesús María Cizaurre Berdonces, O.A.R.
Metropolitan Archbishop	Alberto Taveira Corrêa
Bishops emeritus	Luigi Ferrando
Website
Official website

History

• 14 April 1928: Established as Territorial Prelature of Gurupi from the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Belém do Pará
• 3 February 1934: Renamed as Territorial Prelature of Guamá
• 16 October 1979: Promoted as Diocese of Guamá
• 13 October 1981: Renamed as Diocese of Bragança do Pará

Bishops

• Prelates of Guamá (Latin Rite)
  • Eliseu Maria Coroli, B. (10 August 1940 – 5 February 1977)
• Bishops of Guamá (Latin Rite)
  • Miguel Maria Giambelli, B. (21 April 1980 – 13 October 1981)
• Bishops of Bragança do Pará (Latin Rite)
  • Miguel Maria Giambelli, B. (13 October 1981 – 10 April 1996)
  • Luigi Ferrando (10 April 1996 – 17 August 2016)
  • Jesús María Cizaurre Berdonces, O.A.R. (17 August 2016 – )

Other priest of this diocese who became bishop

• Manoel de Oliveira Soares Filho, appointed Bishop of Palmeira dos Índios, Alagoas in 2018

Sources

• GCatholic.org
• Catholic Hierarchy