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Suffragan diocese Santíssima Conceição do Araguaia, Brazil

Diocese of Santíssima Conceição do Araguaia

Sanctissimae Conceptionis de Araguaia

Latin Church

The Diocese of Santissima Conceicao do Araguaia is a Latin Church suffragan diocese in Para state, Brazil. Established as a territorial prelature in 1911 and promoted to a diocese on 16 October 1979, it is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Belem do Para.

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The address the register holds for Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, in Santíssima Conceição do Araguaia, Brazil.

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Established
1979
Catholics
225,000
Priests
21
Territory
52,500 km²

Parishes and churches

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

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The bishop

Bishop
Dominique You

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The cathedral

Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception stands in Santíssima Conceição do Araguaia, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

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History

A Latin suffragan diocese of the Roman Catholic church, (Santíssima) Conceição do Araguaia (Latin: Dioecesis Sanctissimae Conceptionis de Araguaia) belongs to the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan of Belém do Pará in Brazil. In the city of Conceição do Araguaia stands its cathedral see, the Catedral Nossa Senhora da Conceição ('Our Lady of (Immaculate) Conception').

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