Diocese of Anápolis, Brazil 🇧🇷

Continent: South America

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Anápolis / Anapolitan(us) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Goiânia

Depends on: Dicastery for Bishops

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Celebrations

Liturgical Calendar (National) 📅

History

1966.10.11: Established as Diocese of Anápolis / Anapolitan(us) (Latin) (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Goiânia and became suffragan of Goiânia)
1989.03.29: Lost territory to establish Diocese of Luziânia

Present Prelates

Bishop (2025.11.11 – ...):

Bishop Waldemar Passini Dalbello (59)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Anápolis (Roman Rite)

Bishop Waldemar Passini Dalbello (59)
(2025.11.11 – ...)

Bishop of Anápolis (Brazil)

Congregare in unum

Born:	1966.06.06 (Anápolis, GO, Brazil)
Ordained Priest:	1994.12.03
Consecrated Bishop:	2010.03.19

Priest of Brasília (Brazil) (1994.12.03 – 2009.12.30)

Titular Bishop of Membressa (2009.12.30 – 2014.12.03)

Auxiliary Bishop of Goiânia (Brazil) (2009.12.30 – 2014.12.03)

Apostolic Administrator of Brasília (Brazil) (2011.02.17 – 2011.06.15)

Coadjutor Bishop of Luziânia (Brazil) (2014.12.03 – 2017.07.12)

Bishop of Luziânia (Brazil) (2017.07.12 – 2025.02.05)

Coadjutor Bishop of Anápolis (Brazil) (2025.02.05 – 2025.11.11)

Bishop of Anápolis (Brazil) (2025.11.11 – ...)

Bishop João Casimiro Wilk (Jan Kazimierz), O.F.M. Conv.
(2004.06.09 – 2025.11.11)

Ut amor ametur

Born:	1951.09.18 (Seroczyn, Poland)
Ordained Priest:	1976.06.24
Consecrated Bishop:	1998.04.04
Died:	2025.11.11 (Anápolis, GO, Brazil † 74)

Bishop of Formosa (Brazil) (1998.01.28 – 2004.06.09)

Bishop of Anápolis (Brazil) (2004.06.09 – 2025.11.11)

Bishop Manuel Pestana Filho
(1978.11.30 – 2004.06.09)

In te projectus

Born:	1928.04.27 (Santos, SP, Brazil)
Ordained Priest:	1952.10.05
Consecrated Bishop:	1979.02.18
Died:	2011.01.08 (Santos, SP, Brazil † 82)

Bishop of Anápolis (Brazil) (1978.11.30 – 2004.06.09)

Bishop Epaminondas José de Araújo
(1966.10.27 – 1978.06.05)

In verbo tuo

Born:	1922.03.19 (Caiçara, PB, Brazil)
Ordained Priest:	1945.08.12
Consecrated Bishop:	1960.03.27
Died:	2010.06.09 (João Pessoa, PB, Brazil † 88)

Bishop of Ruy Barbosa (Brazil) (1959.12.14 – 1966.10.27)

Bishop of Anápolis (Brazil) (1966.10.27 – 1978.06.05)

Bishop of Palmeira dos Índios (Brazil) (1978.06.05 – 1984.11.28)

Former Prelates

Coadjutor Bishop: Bishop Waldemar Passini Dalbello (59) (2025.02.05 – 2025.11.11)
Auxiliary Bishop: Bishop Dilmo Franco de Campos (2019.11.27 – 2024.08.01)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Catedral Senhor Bom Jesus, Anápolis, Goiás
Jubilee Churches in the Holy Year 2025

Churches by City (60)

Goiânia (↙), Goiás (←), Uruaçu (↑), Luziânia (→), Ipameri (↘)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 14,178 km²

Population: 461,360 Catholics (70.2% of 657,651 total)

Pastoral Centres: 58 parishes, 5 missions

Personnel: 128 priests (91 diocesan, 37 religious), 21 deacons, 249 religious (121 brothers, 128 sisters), 30 seminarians