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Suffragan diocese Guajará-Mirim, Brazil

Diocese of Guajará-Mirim

Guaiaramiren(sis)

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.

On the map

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The address the register holds for Catedral Nossa Senhora do Seringueiro, in Guajará-Mirim, Brazil.

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Established
1929
Catholics
130,200
Priests
12
Territory
89,700 km²

Parishes and churches

14 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.

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The bishop

No bishop is recorded for this diocese. 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.

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.

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