Diocese of

Bragança do Pará 𝐖

Brazil 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

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Celebrations

Patron Saint: Nossa Senhora do Rosário (October 7)

Liturgical Calendar (National) 📅

History

Present Prelates

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

Ordinaries

Bishops of Bragança do Pará (Roman Rite)

Bishop Raimundo Possidônio Carrera da Mata (70)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. (72)Bishop Jesús María Cizaurre Berdonces, O.A.R. (72)
(2016.08.17 – 2024.05.15)

Bishop emeritus of Bragança do Pará (Brazil)

Pax et Fides

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 (83)Bishop Luís Ferrando (Luigi Ferrando) (83)
(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

Special Churches

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

Population

Pastoral Centres

Priests

Deacons

Religious

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Last updated on 2024.12.15

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