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Suffragan territorial prelature São Félix, Brazil

Diocese of São Félix

Sancti Felicis

Saint Felix do Araguaia is a Latin Church territorial prelature (not a full diocese) in Mato Grosso state, Brazil, erected on 13 May 1969 and historically associated with Bishop Pedro Casaldaliga. It is a suffragan jurisdiction in the ecclesiastical province of Cuiaba; its current bishop-prelate is Lucio Nicoletto.

On the map

Esri
The address the register holds for Prelatial Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption, in São Félix, Brazil.

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Established
1969
Catholics
155,000
Priests
24
Territory
150,000 km²

Parishes and churches

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

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The bishop

Bishop
Lucio Nicoletto
Born
18 August 1972
Birthplace
Este

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The cathedral

Prelatial Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption stands in São Félix, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

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History

In the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, the Territorial Prelature of São Félix (do Araguaia) (Latin: Praelatura Territorialis Sancti Felicis) is a Roman Catholic territorial prelature, suffragan within the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archbishop of Cuiabá. The city of São Félix do Araguaia holds its cathedral see, the Catedral Prelatícia Nossa Senhora da Assunção.