Roman Catholic Diocese of Rubiataba–Mozarlândia
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Diocese of Rubiataba–Mozarlândia
Dioecesis Rubiatabensis-Mozarlandensis
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Location | |
Country | Brazil |
Ecclesiastical province | Goiânia |
Statistics | |
Area | Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1851: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value). |
Population - Total - Catholics |
(as of 2004) 105,550 84,835 (80.4%) |
Information | |
Rite | Latin Rite |
Established | 11 October 1966 (57 years ago) |
Cathedral | Catedral Nossa Senhora da Glória, Rubiataba |
Co-cathedral | Co-Catedral Nossa Senhora do Perpétuo Socorro, Mozarlândia |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Bishop | Adair José Guimarães |
Emeritus Bishops | José Carlos de Oliveira, C.Ss.R. |
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Rubiataba–Mozarlândia (Latin: Dioecesis Rubiatabensis-Mozarlandensis) is a diocese located in the cities of Rubiataba and Mozarlândia in the Ecclesiastical province of Goiânia in Brazil.
History
On 11 October 1966, Pope Paul VI established the Diocese of Rubiataba–Mozarlândia as the Territorial Prelature of Rubiataba from the Diocese of Goiás and Diocese of Uruaçu. Blessed John Paul II renamed the prelature as the Territorial Prelature of Rubiataba–Mozarlândia on 18 April 1979. On 16 October of the same year the prelature was elevated to a diocese.[1][2]
Leadership
- Prelates of Rubiataba (Roman Rite)
- Bishop Juvenal Roriz, C.Ss.R. (later Archbishop) (1966.10.27 – 1978.05.05)
- Prelates of Rubiataba – Mozarlândia (Roman Rite)
- Bishop José Carlos de Oliveira, C.Ss.R. (1979.09.14 – 1979.10.16)
- Bishops of Rubiataba–Mozarlândia (Roman rite)
- Bishop José Carlos de Oliveira, C.Ss.R. (1979.10.16 – 2008.02.27)
- Bishop Adair José Guimarães (2008.02.27 – present)
References
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