Diocese of

Guarapuava 𝐖

Brazil

Continent: South America

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Guarapuava / Guarapuaven(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Curitiba

Depends on: Dicastery for Bishops

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Celebrations

Patron Saint: Nossa Senhora de Belém

Liturgical Calendar (National) 📅

History

1965.12.16: Established as Diocese of Guarapuava / Guarapuaven(sis) (Latin) (from Diocese of Campo Mourão, Diocese of Ponta Grossa and Diocese of Toledo and became suffragan of Curitiba)
1976.12.03: Lost territory to establish Diocese of União da Vitória

Present Prelates

Bishop (2020.05.06 – ...):

Bishop Amilton Manoel da Silva, C.P. (61)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Guarapuava (Roman Rite)

Bishop Amilton Manoel da Silva, C.P. (61)
(2020.05.06 – ...)

Bishop of Guarapuava (Brazil)

Christi in cruce gloriari

Born:	1963.03.02 (Osvaldo Cruz, SP, Brazil)
Ordained Priest:	2000.12.17
Consecrated Bishop:	2017.08.19

Titular Bishop of Tusuros (2017.06.07 – 2020.05.06)

Auxiliary Bishop of Curitiba (Brazil) (2017.06.07 – 2020.05.06)

Bishop of Guarapuava (Brazil) (2020.05.06 – ...)

Bishop Antônio Wagner da Silva, S.C.I. (80)
(2003.07.02 – 2020.05.06)

Bishop emeritus of Guarapuava (Brazil)

Born:	1944.03.25 (Formiga, MG, Brazil)
Ordained Priest:	1971.12.11
Consecrated Bishop:	2000.06.18

Coadjutor Bishop of Guarapuava (Brazil) (2000.03.29 – 2003.07.02)

Bishop of Guarapuava (Brazil) (2003.07.02 – 2020.05.06)

Bishop Giovanni Zerbini, S.D.B. (96)
(1995.01.11 – 2003.07.02)

Bishop emeritus of Guarapuava (Brazil)

Major est caritas

Born:	1927.12.29 (Chiari, Italy)
Ordained Priest:	1956.06.29
Consecrated Bishop:	1995.02.19

Bishop of Guarapuava (Brazil) (1995.01.11 – 2003.07.02)

Bishop Albano Bortoletto Cavallin (later Archbishop)
(1986.10.24 – 1992.03.11)

Interpretabatur in Scripturis

Born:	1930.04.25 (Lapa, RJ, Brazil)
Ordained Priest:	1953.12.06
Consecrated Bishop:	1973.08.28
Died:	2017.02.01 (Londrina, PR, Brazil † 86)

Titular Bishop of Aquæ novæ in Numidia (1973.06.14 – 1986.10.24)

Auxiliary Bishop of Curitiba (Brazil) (1973.06.14 – 1986.10.24)

Bishop of Guarapuava (Brazil) (1986.10.24 – 1992.03.11)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Londrina (Brazil) (1992.03.11 – 2006.05.10)

Bishop Friedrich Helmel, S.V.D.
(1966.03.19 – 1986.09.27)

Caritas Christi urget nos

Born:	1911.05.02 (Austria)
Ordained Priest:	1937.10.31
Consecrated Bishop:	1966.05.19
Died:	1993.09.12 († 82)

Bishop of Guarapuava (Brazil) (1966.03.19 – 1986.09.27)

Former Prelates

Coadjutor Bishop: Bishop Antônio Wagner da Silva, S.C.I. (80) (2000.03.29 – 2003.07.02)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Catedral Nossa Senhora de Belém, Guarapuava, Paraná
Former Cathedral: Santuário Nossa Senhora de Belém, Guarapuava, Paraná
Shrines in the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy

Churches by City (49)

Cascavel (←), Campo Mourão (↖), Apucarana (↑), Ponta Grossa (→), União da Vitória (↘), Palmas–Francisco Beltrão (↓)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 27,360 km²

Population: 431,000 Catholics (76.0% of 567,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 47 parishes

Personnel: 86 priests (28 diocesan, 58 religious), 1 deacon, 108 religious (60 brothers, 48 sisters), 19 seminarians

Pastoral Centres

Last updated on 2024.12.15

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