Diocese of

Formosa 𝐖

Brazil

Continent: South America

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Formosa / Formosen(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Brasília

Depends on: Dicastery for Bishops

Website:

Celebrations

Patron Saint: Imaculada Conceição (December 8)

Liturgical Calendar (National) 📅

History

1956.03.26: Established as Territorial Prelature of Formosa / Formosen(sis) (Latin) (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Goiás, from the suppressed Territorial Prelature of São José de Alto Tocantins and became suffragan of Goiânia)
1966.10.11: Became suffragan of Brasília
1979.10.16: Promoted as Diocese of Formosa / Formosen(sis) (Latin)

Present Prelates

Bishop (2019.02.27 – ...):

Bishop Adair José Guimarães (64)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Formosa (Roman Rite)

Bishop Adair José Guimarães (64)
(2019.02.27 – ...)

Bishop of Formosa (Brazil)

Fiat voluntas tua

Born:	1960.06.16 (Mara Rosa, GO, Brazil)
Ordained Priest:	1986.12.21
Consecrated Bishop:	2008.05.17

Priest of Uruaçu (Brazil) (1986.12.21 – 2008.02.27)

Bishop of Rubiataba–Mozarlândia (Brazil) (2008.02.27 – 2019.02.27)

Bishop of Formosa (Brazil) (2019.02.27 – ...)

Archbishop Paulo Mendes Peixoto (73)
(Apostolic Administrator 2018.03.21 – 2019.02.27)

Bishop José Ronaldo Ribeiro (67)
(2014.09.24 – 2018.09.12)

Bishop emeritus of Formosa (Brazil)

In corde legem Meam

Born:	1957.02.28 (Uberaba, MG, Brazil)
Ordained Priest:	1985.05.05
Consecrated Bishop:	2007.07.25

Priest of Brasília (Brazil) (1985.05.05 – 2007.06.06)

Bishop of Janaúba (Brazil) (2007.06.06 – 2014.09.24)

Bishop of Formosa (Brazil) (2014.09.24 – 2018.09.12)

Bishop Paulo Roberto Beloto (67)
(2005.11.16 – 2013.10.23)

Bishop of Franca (Brazil)

Evangelii servus

Born:	1957.04.09 (Adamantina, SP, Brazil)
Ordained Priest:	1986.06.29
Consecrated Bishop:	2006.02.04

Priest of Marília (Brazil) (1986.06.29 – 2005.11.16)

Bishop of Formosa (Brazil) (2005.11.16 – 2013.10.23)

Bishop of Franca (Brazil) (2013.10.23 – ...)

Bishop João Casimiro Wilk (Jan Kazimierz), O.F.M. Conv. (73)
(1998.01.28 – 2004.06.09)

Bishop of Anápolis (Brazil)

Born:	1951.09.18 (Seroczyn, Poland)
Ordained Priest:	1976.06.24
Consecrated Bishop:	1998.04.04

Bishop of Formosa (Brazil) (1998.01.28 – 2004.06.09)

Bishop of Anápolis (Brazil) (2004.06.09 – ...)

Bishop Victor João Herman José Tielbeek, SS.CC.
(1979.10.16 – 1997.12.24)

Zelus domus tuæ

Born:	1919.08.16 (Netherlands)
Ordained Priest:	1946.08.04
Consecrated Bishop:	1961.04.09
Died:	1997.12.24 († 78)

Titular Bishop of Tipasa in Numidia (1961.02.04 – 1978.05.26)

Bishop-Prelate of Formosa (Brazil) (1961.02.04 – 1979.10.16)

Bishop of Formosa (Brazil) (1979.10.16 – 1997.12.24)

Prelates of Formosa (Roman Rite)

Bishop Victor João Herman José Tielbeek, SS.CC.
(1961.02.04 – 1979.10.16)

(see above)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Catedral Nossa Senhora da Imaculada Conceição, Formosa, Goiás

Churches by City (34)

Brasília (↙), Uruaçu (↖), Porto Nacional (↑), Barreiras (↗), Bom Jesus da Lapa (↗), Paracatu (↓)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 47,533 km²

Population: 301,800 Catholics (74.9% of 403,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 35 parishes

Personnel: 43 priests (41 diocesan, 2 religious), 4 deacons, 41 religious (4 brothers, 37 sisters), 17 seminarians

Pastoral Centres

Last updated on 2024.12.15

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