Territorial Prelature of São Félix, Brazil 🇧🇷

Rite: Roman (Latin)

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

Ecclesiastical Province: Cuiabá

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

Depends on: Dicastery for Bishops

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History

1969.05.13: Established as Territorial Prelature of São Félix (Português) / São Félix do Araguaia (Português) / Sancti Felicis (Latin) (from Territorial Prelature of Cristalândia, Territorial Prelature of Registro do Araguaia and Territorial Prelature of Santíssima Conceição do Araguaia and became suffragan of Cuiabá)

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 (53)

Ordinaries

Prelates of São Félix (Roman Rite)

Bishop Lucio Nicoletto (53)
(2024.03.13 – ...)

Bishop-Prelate of São Félix (Brazil)

Sine Charitate nihil sum

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 (76)
(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 (81)
(Apostolic Administrator 2011.09 – 2012.03.21)

Bishop Leonardo Ulrich Steiner, O.F.M. (75) (later Cardinal)
(2005.02.02 – 2011.09.21)

Cardinal-Priest of S. Leonardo da Porto Maurizio
Metropolitan Archbishop of Manaus (Brazil)
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 – ...)

Vice-President of Ecclesial Conference of the Amazon (CEAMA) (2022.03.27 – 2026.03.18)

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

President of Ecclesial Conference of the Amazon (CEAMA) (2026.03.18 – ...)

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

Cathedral: Catedral Prelatícia Nossa Senhora da Assunção, São Félix do Araguaia, Mato Grosso

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