The Roman Catholic Diocese of Votuporanga is a

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in the

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of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Ribeirão Preto, in the northwest of

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, southern

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. Its

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seat is the Catedral Nossa Senhora Aparecida, devoted to

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, in

Votuporanga Votuporanga is a municipality in the Northwest of the São Paulo state, Brazil. The city is located 520 km from São Paulo. The population of the city, according to the IBGE, is 95,338 inhabitants. Votuporanga is the center of a Microregion ...

, São Paulo State.

History

Established on 2016.07.20 by

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as Diocese of Votuporanga, on Brazilian territories split off from the Diocese of Jales and the Diocese of São José do Rio Preto. It still borders both as well as the dioceses of

Ituiutaba Ituiutaba (Brazilian Portuguese: /itujuˈtabɐ/) is a municipality in the western part of Minas Gerais state, Brazil. Elevated to city status in 1901, its population in 2020 was 105,255 and a total area in the municipality of 2,694 km2. Th ...

and Araçatuba. It instantly depended on the Roman

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, without having had a missionary phase.

Ordinaries

Its first and present Suffragan Bishop is Moacir Aparecido de Freitas (2016.07.20 – ...), born 1962.08.22 in Brazil, ordained priest 1987.12.11, consecrated bishop 2016.10.11.

External links and sources

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