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 share
- 78.2%
- Priests
- 27
- Catholics per priest
- 5,907
- Extent
- 59,840 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 2.7
of the people living within its bounds
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.
What is kept by invitation
The record above is published because it is public: what this see is, when it was erected, who holds its chair, and where it stands among its neighbours.
The working record is not. The chancery's address, telephone and email, the clergy of the see, and the hours of Mass, confession and adoration in the parishes within it are kept for members, and a person reads every request.
Sources
The see's own website · Wikipedia
This record is compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. On the method, see the keeping of the record. Whoever finds an error is asked, in charity, to write: [email protected].