Diocese of Ipameri, Brazil

Continent: South America

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Ipameri / Ipamerien(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Goiânia

Depends on: Dicastery for Bishops

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Celebrations

Patron Saint: Divino Espírito Santo

Liturgical Calendar (National) 📅

History

1966.10.11: Established as Diocese of Ipameri / Ipamerien(sis) (Latin) (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Goiânia and became suffragan of Goiânia)
1989.03.29: Lost territory to establish Diocese of Luziânia

Present Prelates

Bishop (2019.05.15 – ...):

Bishop José Francisco Rodrigues do Rêgo (58)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Ipameri (Roman Rite)

Bishop José Francisco Rodrigues do Rêgo (58)
(2019.05.15 – ...)

Bishop of Ipameri (Brazil)

Mane nobiscum Domine

Born:	1966.12.24 (Barras, PI, Brazil)
Ordained Priest:	1992.12.13
Consecrated Bishop:	2019.08.04

Priest of Uruaçu (Brazil) (1992.12.13 – 2019.05.15)

Bishop of Ipameri (Brazil) (2019.05.15 – ...)

Bishop Guilherme Antônio Werlang, M.S.F. (74)
(1999.05.19 – 2018.02.07)

Bishop of Lages (Brazil)

Para que todos tenham vida

Born:	1950.08.05 (São Carlos, SC, Brazil)
Ordained Priest:	1979.08.02
Consecrated Bishop:	1999.07.17

Bishop of Ipameri (Brazil) (1999.05.19 – 2018.02.07)

Bishop of Lages (Brazil) (2018.02.07 – ...)

Archbishop Geraldo do Espírito Santo Ávila
(Apostolic Administrator 1998.07.29 – 1999.05.19)

Bishop Tarcísio Sebastião Batista Lopes, O.F.M. Cap.
(1986.12.19 – 1998.07.29)

Born:	1938.01.18 (Brazil)
Ordained Priest:	1964.06.28
Consecrated Bishop:	1984.05.14
Died:	2001.11.07 († 63)

Bishop of Grajaú (Brazil) (1984.04.04 – 1986.12.19)

Bishop of Ipameri (Brazil) (1986.12.19 – 1998.07.29)

Bishop Antônio Ribeiro de Oliveira (later Archbishop)
(1975.12.19 – 1985.10.23)

Ut Unum Sint

Born:	1926.06.10 (Orizona, GO, Brazil)
Ordained Priest:	1949.04.02
Consecrated Bishop:	1961.10.29
Died:	2017.02.28 (Goiania, GO, Brazil † 90)

Titular Bishop of Arindela (1961.08.25 – 1975.12.19)

Auxiliary Bishop of Goiânia (Brazil) (1961.08.25 – 1975.12.19)

Bishop of Ipameri (Brazil) (1975.12.19 – 1985.10.23)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Goiânia (Brazil) (1985.10.23 – 2002.05.08)

Bishop Gilberto Pereira Lopes (98) (later Archbishop)
(1966.11.03 – 1975.12.19)

Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Campinas (Brazil)

Mysterium Christi Prædicare

Born:	1927.02.14 (Santa Lucia, SP, Brazil)
Ordained Priest:	1949.12.14
Consecrated Bishop:	1966.12.18

Bishop of Ipameri (Brazil) (1966.11.03 – 1975.12.19)

Titular Archbishop of Aurusuliana (1975.12.19 – 1982.02.10)

Coadjutor Archbishop of Campinas (Brazil) (1975.12.19 – 1982.02.10)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Campinas (Brazil) (1982.02.10 – 2004.06.02)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Catedral Divino Espírito Santo, Ipameri, Goiás
Jubilee Churches in the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy (2016)

Churches by City (27)

Itumbiara (←), Goiânia (↖), Anápolis (↖), Luziânia (↑), Paracatu (→), Patos de Minas (↘), Uberlândia (↓)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 22,947 km²

Population: 342,000 Catholics (93.4% of 366,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 25 parishes

Personnel: 18 priests (16 diocesan, 2 religious), 1 deacon, 43 religious (3 brothers, 40 sisters), 5 seminarians