Diocese of São Félix
Sancti Felicis
Suffragan territorial prelature · Latin Church · São Félix, Brazil
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.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan territorial prelature
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 13 May 1969
- Latin
- Sancti Felicis
- Patron
- Our Lady of the Assumption (Nossa Senhora da Assuncao)
- Annuario code
- 001000286
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 155,000
- Population
- 150,000
- Priests
- 24
- Catholics per priest
- 6,458
- Extent
- 150,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 1.0
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
- Lucio Nicoletto
- Born
- 18 August 1972
- Birthplace
- Este
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
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.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
The province of Cuiaba
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Cuiaba.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of CuiabáCuiabá
- Diocese of JuínaJuína
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
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.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Rua Açucena 20, Sector São Geraldo, 78655-000 Porto Alegre do Norte, MT, Brasil
- Telephone
- [066]3569-1263
- [email protected]
This see keeps no website of its own, so its chancery is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.
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 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
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].