Diocese of Paranaguá, Brazil

Continent: South America

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Paranaguá / Paranaguen(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Curitiba

Depends on: Dicastery for Bishops

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Celebrations

Patron Saint: Nossa Senhora do Rosário (October 7)

Liturgical Calendar (National) 📅

History

1962.07.21: Established as Diocese of Paranaguá / Paranaguen(sis) (Latin) (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Curitiba and became suffragan of Curitiba)

Present Prelates

Bishop (2015.11.25 – ...):

Bishop Edmar Perón (59)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Paranaguá (Roman Rite)

Bishop Edmar Perón (59)
(2015.11.25 – ...)

Bishop of Paranaguá (Brazil)

Ut faciam voluntatem tuam

Born:	1965.03.04 (Maringá, PR, Brazil)
Ordained Priest:	1990.01.21
Consecrated Bishop:	2010.02.28

Priest of Maringá (Brazil) (1990.01.21 – 2009.12.30)

Titular Bishop of Mattiana (2009.12.30 – 2015.11.25)

Auxiliary Bishop of São Paulo (Brazil) (2009.12.30 – 2015.11.25)

Bishop of Paranaguá (Brazil) (2015.11.25 – ...)

Bishop Francisco Carlos Bach (70)
(Apostolic Administrator 2015.04.11 – 2015.11.25)

Bishop João Alves dos Santos, O.F.M. Cap.
(2006.08.02 – 2015.04.09)

Como aquele que serve

Born:	1956.12.09 (Brazil)
Ordained Priest:	1982.12.04
Consecrated Bishop:	2006.09.30
Died:	2015.04.09 († 58)

Bishop of Paranaguá (Brazil) (2006.08.02 – 2015.04.09)

Bishop Alfredo Ernest Novak, C.SS.R.
(1989.03.15 – 2006.08.02)

Evangelizare Misit Me

Born:	1930.06.02 (Dwight, NE, USA)
Ordained Priest:	1956.07.02
Consecrated Bishop:	1979.05.27
Died:	2014.12.03 († 84)

Titular Bishop of Vardimissa (1979.04.19 – 1989.03.15)

Auxiliary Bishop of São Paulo (Brazil) (1979.04.19 – 1989.03.15)

Bishop of Paranaguá (Brazil) (1989.03.15 – 2006.08.02)

Bishop Bernardo José Nolker, C.SS.R.
(1963.01.07 – 1989.03.15)

Voluntas Dei pax nostra

Born:	1912.09.25 (USA)
Ordained Priest:	1939.06.18
Consecrated Bishop:	1963.04.25
Died:	2000.01.17 († 87)

Bishop of Paranaguá (Brazil) (1963.01.07 – 1989.03.15)

Archbishop Manuel da Silveira d’Elboux
(Apostolic Administrator 1962.07.21 – 1963.01.07)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Catedral Nossa Senhora do Rosário, Paranaguá, Paraná
Shrines in the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy

Churches by City (28)

São José dos Pinhais (←), Curitiba (←), Ponta Grossa (↖), Jacarezinho (↖), Itapeva (↑), Registro (↗), Joinville (↓)

Statistics (2016.12.31)

Area: 11,537 km²

Population: 419,000 Catholics (77.2% of 543,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 20 parishes, 248 missions

Personnel: 37 priests (26 diocesan, 11 religious), 2 deacons, 46 religious (13 brothers, 33 sisters), 7 seminarians