Diocese of Sete Lagoas, Brazil

Continent: South America

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Sete Lagoas / Septemlacunen(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Belo Horizonte

Depends on: Dicastery for Bishops

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Celebrations

Patron Saint: Imaculada Conceição (December 8)

Liturgical Calendar (National) 📅

History

1955.07.16: Established as Diocese of Sete Lagoas / Septemlacunen(sis) (Latin) (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Belo Horizonte and Metropolitan Archdiocese of Diamantina and became suffragan of Belo Horizonte)

Present Prelates

Bishop (2020.06.10 – ...):

Bishop Francisco Cota de Oliveira (55)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Sete Lagoas (Roman Rite)

Bishop Francisco Cota de Oliveira (55)
(2020.06.10 – ...)

Bishop of Sete Lagoas (Brazil)

Veni ut serviam

Born:	1969.08.05 (Onça do Pitangui, MG, Brazil)
Ordained Priest:	1999.08.01
Consecrated Bishop:	2017.08.26

Priest of Divinópolis (Brazil) (1999.08.01 – 2017.06.07)

Titular Bishop of Fiorentino (2017.06.07 – 2020.06.10)

Auxiliary Bishop of Curitiba (Brazil) (2017.06.07 – 2020.06.10)

Bishop of Sete Lagoas (Brazil) (2020.06.10 – ...)

Bishop Aloísio Jorge Pena Vitral (69)
(2017.09.20 – 2020.06.10)

Bishop emeritus of Sete Lagoas (Brazil)

Revestido de profunda misericórdia

Born:	1955.04.23 (Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil)
Ordained Priest:	1986.01.18
Consecrated Bishop:	2006.03.25

Priest of Belo Horizonte (Brazil) (1986.01.18 – 2006.02.11)

Titular Bishop of Thubursicum-Bure (2006.02.11 – 2009.11.25)

Auxiliary Bishop of Belo Horizonte (Brazil) (2006.02.11 – 2009.11.25)

Bishop of Teófilo Otoni (Brazil) (2009.11.25 – 2017.09.20)

Bishop of Sete Lagoas (Brazil) (2017.09.20 – 2020.06.10)

Bishop Guilherme Porto (83)
(1999.10.27 – 2017.09.20)

Bishop emeritus of Sete Lagoas (Brazil)

Veritas in caritate

Born:	1942.01.21 (Conceição do Rio Verde, MG, Brazil)
Ordained Priest:	1966.08.07
Consecrated Bishop:	1998.10.12

Coadjutor Bishop of Sete Lagoas (Brazil) (1998.07.15 – 1999.10.27)

Bishop of Sete Lagoas (Brazil) (1999.10.27 – 2017.09.20)

Bishop José de Lima
(1981.06.07 – 1999.10.27)

In caritate

Born:	1924.02.21 (Brazil)
Ordained Priest:	1948.12.08
Consecrated Bishop:	1973.07.15
Died:	2013.06.12 († 89)

Bishop of Itumbiara (Brazil) (1973.04.13 – 1981.06.07)

Bishop of Sete Lagoas (Brazil) (1981.06.07 – 1999.10.27)

Bishop Daniel Tavares Baeta Neves
(1964.06.04 – 1980.07.08)

Born:	1911.03.11 (Brazil)
Ordained Priest:	1935.11.30
Consecrated Bishop:	1947.06.29
Died:	1980.07.08 († 69)

Titular Bishop of Parnassus (1947.03.29 – 1958.05.16)

Auxiliary Bishop of Mariana (Brazil) (1947.03.29 – 1958.05.16)

Bishop of Januária (Brazil) (1958.05.16 – 1962.06.01)

Titular Bishop of Alexandria minor (1962.06.01 – 1964.06.04)

Bishop of Sete Lagoas (Brazil) (1964.06.04 – 1980.07.08)

Bishop José de Almeida Batista Pereira
(1955.11.07 – 1964.04.02)

Ipsa conteret

Born:	1917.07.26 (Brazil)
Ordained Priest:	1940.12.22
Consecrated Bishop:	1954.02.02
Died:	2009.01.31 († 91)

Titular Bishop of Baris in Pisidia (1953.12.22 – 1955.11.07)

Auxiliary Bishop of Niterói (Brazil) (1953.12.22 – 1955.11.07)

Bishop of Sete Lagoas (Brazil) (1955.11.07 – 1964.04.02)

Bishop of Guaxupé (Brazil) (1964.04.02 – 1976.01.16)

Former Prelates

Coadjutor Bishop: Bishop Guilherme Porto (83) (1998.07.15 – 1999.10.27)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Catedral Santo Antônio, Sete Lagoas, Minas Gerais

Churches by City (52)

Divinópolis (↙), Luz (←), Diamantina (↑), Guanhães (↗), Itabira–Fabriciano (→), Belo Horizonte (↓)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 12,153 km²

Population: 346,821 Catholics (75.1% of 461,998 total)

Pastoral Centres: 41 parishes, 382 missions

Personnel: 66 priests (57 diocesan, 9 religious), 56 religious (15 brothers, 41 sisters), 9 seminarians