The Roman Catholic Diocese of Sete Lagoas ( la, Dioecesis Septemlacunensis) is a

diocese In Ecclesiastical polity, church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop. History In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided Roman province, pro ...

located in the city of

Sete Lagoas Sete Lagoas (meaning 'Seven Lagoons' in Portuguese) is a city in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. The municipal area is 537;km² while the population was 241,835 in 2020. Location Sete Lagoas is situated about 70 kilometres from Belo Horizon ...

in the

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Belo Horizonte Belo Horizonte (, ; ) is the sixth-largest city in Brazil, with a population around 2.7 million and with a metropolitan area of 6 million people. It is the 13th-largest city in South America and the 18th-largest in the Americas. The metropol ...

in Brazil.

History

* July 16, 1955: Established as Diocese of Sete Lagoas from the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Belo Horizonte and

Metropolitan Archdiocese of Diamantina The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Diamantina ( la, Archidioecesis Adamantina) is an archdiocese located in the city of Diamantina, Minas Gerais in Brazil. History * June 6, 1854: Established as Diocese of Diamantina from the Diocese of Marian ...

Leadership

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s of Sete Lagoas (Roman rite), in reverse chronological order ** Bishop Francisco Cota de Oliveira (2020.06.10 - ** Bishop Aloísio Jorge Pena Vitral (2017.09.20 - 2020.06.10) ** Bishop Guilherme Porto (1999.10.27 – 2017.09.20) ** Bishop

José de Lima José de Lima (February 21, 1924 – June 12, 2013) was a Brazilian prelate of the Catholic Church. José de Lima was born in Tiros TIROS, or Television InfraRed Observation Satellite, is a series of early weather satellites launched by t ...

(1981.06.07 – 1999.10.27) ** Bishop

Daniel Tavares Baeta Neves Daniel is a masculine given name and a surname of Hebrew origin. It means "God is my judge"Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 68. (cf. Gabriel—"God is my strength"), ...

(1964.06.04 – 1980.07.08) ** Bishop

José de Almeida Batista Pereira José de Almeida Batista Pereira (26 July 1917 – 30 January 2009) was a Brazilian bishop of the Roman Catholic Church The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion ...

(1955.11.07 – 1964.04.02)

Sources

GCatholic.org

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