Suffragan diocese Uruaçu, Brazil
Diocese of Uruaçu
Uruassuen(sis)
Latin Church
The Diocese of Uruaçu is a Latin Church diocese in Goiás, Brazil, erected in 1956 from the Archdiocese of Goiás. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Brasília, led since 2020 by Bishop Giovani Carlos Caldas Barroca.
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- Established
- 1956
- Catholics
- 197,000
- Priests
- 56
- Territory
- 43,000 km²
Parishes and churches
32 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
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The bishop
- Bishop
- Giovani Carlos Caldas Barroca
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The cathedral
Catedral Imaculado Coração de Maria stands in Uruaçu, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
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History
The city of Uruaçu is the seat of this diocese (Latin: Dioecesis Uruassuensis), which belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Brasília in Brazil. Giovanni Carlos Caldas Barroca, a priest of the Brasilia archdiocese, was appointed its new bishop on June 17, 2020.
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