Diocese of

Bragança do Pará

Brazil

Continent: South America

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Bragança do Pará / Brigantien(sis) de Para (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Belém do Pará

Depends on: Dicastery for Bishops

Websites:

Celebrations

Patron Saint: Nossa Senhora do Rosário (October 7)

Liturgical Calendar (National) 📅

History

1928.04.14: Established as Territorial Prelature of Gurupi / Gurupen(sis) (Latin) (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Belém do Pará and became suffragan of Belém do Pará)
1934.02.03: Renamed as Territorial Prelature of Guamá / Guamen(sis) (Latin)
1979.10.16: Promoted as Diocese of Guamá / Guamen(sis) (Latin)
1981.10.13: Renamed as Diocese of Bragança do Pará / Brigantien(sis) de Para (Latin)
2004.12.29: Lost territory to establish Diocese of Castanhal

Present Prelates

Bishop (2024.05.15 – ...):

Bishop Raimundo Possidônio Carrera da Mata (70)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Bragança do Pará (Roman Rite)

Bishop Raimundo Possidônio Carrera da Mata (70)
(2024.05.15 – ...)

Bishop of Bragança do Pará (Brazil)

Evangelizar é minha missão

Born:	1954.03.31 (Icoaraci, PA, Brazil)
Ordained Priest:	1978.06.24
Consecrated Bishop:	2022.04.23

Priest of Belém do Pará (Brazil) (1978.06.24 – 2022.03.16)

Coadjutor Bishop of Bragança do Pará (Brazil) (2022.03.16 – 2024.05.15)

Bishop of Bragança do Pará (Brazil) (2024.05.15 – ...)

Bishop Jesús María Cizaurre Berdonces, O.A.R. (73)
(2016.08.17 – 2024.05.15)

Bishop emeritus of Bragança do Pará (Brazil)

Born:	1952.01.06 (Valtierra, Navarra, Spain)
Ordained Priest:	1976.06.26
Consecrated Bishop:	2000.05.07

Bishop-Prelate of Cametá (Brazil) (2000.02.23 – 2013.02.06)

Apostolic Administrator of Marabá (Brazil) (2012 – 2012.10.10)

Bishop of Cametá (Brazil) (2013.02.06 – 2016.08.17)

Bishop of Bragança do Pará (Brazil) (2016.08.17 – 2024.05.15)

Bishop Luís Ferrando (Luigi Ferrando) (84)
(1996.04.10 – 2016.08.17)

Bishop emeritus of Bragança do Pará (Brazil)

Fiat mihi secundum Verbum tuum

Born:	1941.01.22 (Agazzano, Italy)
Ordained Priest:	1965.05.01
Consecrated Bishop:	1996.05.05

Priest of Piacenza–Bobbio (Italy) (1965.05.01 – 1996.04.10)

Bishop of Bragança do Pará (Brazil) (1996.04.10 – 2016.08.17)

Bishop Miguel Maria Giambelli, B.
(1981.10.13 – 1996.04.10)

In Spiritu Sancto

Born:	1920.03.23 (Italy)
Ordained Priest:	1943.07.04
Consecrated Bishop:	1980.06.15
Died:	2010.12.26 († 90)

Bishop of Guamá (Brazil) (1980.04.21 – 1981.10.13)

Bishop of Bragança do Pará (Brazil) (1981.10.13 – 1996.04.10)

Bishops of Guamá (Roman Rite)

Bishop Miguel Maria Giambelli, B.
(1980.04.21 – 1981.10.13)

(see above)

Prelates of Guamá (Roman Rite)

Bishop Eliseu Maria Coroli, B.
(1940.08.10 – 1977.02.05)

Filiolis pax et gaudium

Born:	1900.02.09 (Italy)
Ordained Priest:	1924.03.15
Consecrated Bishop:	1940.10.13
Died:	1982.07.29 († 82)

Bishop-Prelate of Guamá (Brazil) (1940.08.10 – 1977.02.05)

Titular Bishop of Zama maior (1940.08.10 – 1982.07.29)

Former Prelates

Coadjutor Bishop: Bishop Raimundo Possidônio Carrera da Mata (70) (2022.03.16 – 2024.05.15)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Catedral Nossa Senhora do Rosário, Bragança, Pará
Former Cathedral: Igreja Nossa Senhora da Conceição, Ourém, Pará
Jubilee Churches in the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy (2016)

Churches by City (27)

Marabá (↙), Cametá (↙), Abaetetuba (↙), Castanhal (←), Zé Doca (→), Imperatriz (↓)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 69,084 km²

Population: 799,000 Catholics (70.7% of 1,130,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 29 parishes

Personnel: 55 priests (44 diocesan, 11 religious), 27 deacons, 108 religious (11 brothers, 97 sisters), 22 seminarians

Pastoral Centres

Last updated on 2025.01.27

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