Territorial Prelature of

São Félix

Brazil Brazil

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Continent: South America

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Territorial Prelature Territorial Prelature

Name: São Félix (Português) / São Félix do Araguaia (Português) / Sancti Felicis (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Cuiabá

Depends on: Dicastery for Bishops

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Contact Info

Address: Cúria Prelatícia, Rua do Comércio 66, 78670-000 São Félix do Araguaia, MT, Brazil

Phone: (066)3522-1449

Present Prelates

Bishop-Prelate (2024.03.13 – ...):Bishop Lucio Nicoletto (52)Bishop Lucio Nicoletto (52)

Ordinaries

Prelates of São Félix (Roman Rite)

Bishop Lucio Nicoletto (52)Bishop Lucio Nicoletto (52)
(2024.03.13 – ...)

Bishop-Prelate of São Félix (Brazil)

Born:1972.08.18 (Este, Italy)
Ordained Priest:1998.06.07
Consecrated Bishop:2024.06.01

Priest of Padova (Italy) (1998.06.07 – 2024.03.13)

Bishop-Prelate of São Félix (Brazil) (2024.03.13 – ...)

Bishop Adriano Ciocca Vasino (75)Bishop Adriano Ciocca Vasino (75)
(2012.03.21 – 2024.03.13)

Bishop-Prelate emeritus of São Félix (Brazil)

Vim para servir

Born:1949.07.08 (Borgosesia, Italy)
Ordained Priest:1974.09.08
Consecrated Bishop:1999.05.02

Priest of Novara (Italy) (1974.09.08 – 1999.03.03)

Bishop of Floresta (Brazil) (1999.03.03 – 2012.03.21)

Bishop-Prelate of São Félix (Brazil) (2012.03.21 – 2024.03.13)

Bishop Eugène Lambert Adrian Rixen (80)Bishop Eugène Lambert Adrian Rixen (80)
(Apostolic Administrator 2011.09 – 2012.03.21)

Cardinal Leonardo Ulrich Steiner, O.F.M. (73)Bishop Leonardo Ulrich Steiner, O.F.M. (73) (later Cardinal)
(2005.02.02 – 2011.09.21)

Cardinal-Priest of S. Leonardo da Porto Maurizio
Metropolitan Archbishop of Manaus (Brazil)
First Vice-President of Ecclesial Conference of the Amazon (CEAMA)

Verbo feito carne

Born:1950.11.06 (Forquilhinha, SC, Brazil)
Ordained Priest:1978.01.21
Consecrated Bishop:2005.04.16
Created Cardinal:2022.08.27

Bishop-Prelate of São Félix (Brazil) (2005.02.02 – 2011.09.21)

General Secretary of National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (2011.05.10 – 2019.05.06)

Titular Bishop of Thisiduo (2011.09.21 – 2019.11.27)

Auxiliary Bishop of Brasília (Brazil) (2011.09.21 – 2019.11.27)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Manaus (Brazil) (2019.11.27 – ...)

First Vice-President of Ecclesial Conference of the Amazon (CEAMA) (2022.03.27 – ...)

Cardinal-Priest of S. Leonardo da Porto Maurizio (2022.08.27 [2022.12.04] – ...)

Bishop Pedro Casaldáliga Plá, C.M.F.
(1971.08.27 – 2005.02.02)

Humanizar la humanidad

Born:1928.02.16 (Balsareny, Spain)
Ordained Priest:1952.05.31
Consecrated Bishop:1971.10.23
Died:2020.08.08 (Batatais, SP, Brazil † 92)

Titular Bishop of Altava (1971.08.27 – 1978.05.26)

Bishop-Prelate of São Félix (Brazil) (1971.08.27 – 2005.02.02)

Special Churches

Churches by City (12)

Barra do Garças (↙), Primavera do Leste–Paranatinga (↙), Sinop (←), Alto Xingu–Tucumã (↖), Santíssima Conceição do Araguaia (↑), Cristalândia (↗), Rubiataba–Mozarlândia (↓)

Statistics (2021.12.31)

Area: 155,000 km²

Population: 155,000 Catholics (85.6% of 181,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 13 parishes

Personnel: 24 priests (12 diocesan, 12 religious), 2 deacons, 31 religious (15 brothers, 16 sisters), 5 seminarians

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Last updated on 2024.10.01

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