Diocese of Guajará-Mirim
Guaiaramiren(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Guajará-Mirim, Brazil
Diocese in Guajara-Mirim, Rondonia, in the ecclesiastical province of Porto Velho. Erected as a territorial prelature in 1929 and promoted to a diocese on 16 October 1979. The see is sede vacante after Bishop Benedito Araujo was transferred to Campo Maior in November 2025.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 1 March 1929
- Latin
- Guaiaramiren(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001001533
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 130,200
- Population
- 218,500
- Catholic share
- 59.6%
- Priests
- 12
- Catholics per priest
- 10,850
- Extent
- 89,700 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 1.5
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
The register holds no ordinary for this see. Where a chair is vacant the vacancy is the fact, and it is recorded rather than filled in. See the bishop.
The cathedral
Catedral Nossa Senhora do Seringueiro stands in Guajará-Mirim, 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 Porto Velho
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Porto Velho.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of Cruzeiro do SulCruzeiro do Sul
- Diocese of HumaitáHumaitá
- Diocese of Ji-ParanáJi-Paraná
- Diocese of LábreaLábrea
- Archdiocese of Porto VelhoPorto Velho
- Diocese of Rio BrancoRio Branco
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
The city of Guajará-Mirim is the seat of this Brazilian diocese, titled Dioecesis Guaiaramirensis in Latin and belonging to the ecclesiastical province of Porto Velho.
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].