The Territorial Prelature of São Félix (do Araguaia) ( la, Praelatura Territorialis Sancti Felicis) is a

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territorial prelature A territory is an area of land, sea, or space, particularly belonging or connected to a country, person, or animal. In international politics, a territory is usually either the total area from which a state may extract power resources or an ...

in the Brazilian state of

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. It is a suffragan in the

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of the Metropolitan of Archbishop of Cuiabá. Its cathedral see, Catedral Prelatícia Nossa Senhora da Assunção, is located in the city of

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. On 21 March 2012,

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appointed as the Prelate of São Félix Bishop

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, who had previously served as the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Floresta in

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History

* On 13 May 1969, the Territorial Prelature of São Félix was established from the

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, the

Territorial Prelature of Registro do Araguaia The Diocese of Guiratinga (Dioecesis Guiratingensis) was a former ecclesiastical circumscription of the Catholic Church in Brazil, belonging to the Ecclesiastical Province of Cuiabá and the West II Regional Bishops' Council of the National Confer ...

(later promoted to Diocese of Guiratinga and suppressed) and the

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(later renamed Marabá and promoted to a suffragan diocese).

Leadership

* Bishop Pere Casaldàliga i Pla, C.M.F. (27 August 1971 – 2 February 2005) * Bishop

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, O.F.M. (2 February 2005 – 21 September 2011), appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Brasilia **

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: Bishop Eugène Lambert Adrian Rixen of

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(21 September 2011 – 21 March 2012) * Bishop

(21 March 2012 – present)

References

External links

GCatholic.org, with more extensive prelate biographies

Pelature website
Roman Catholic dioceses in Brazil Christian organizations established in 1969 São Félix, Territorial Prelature of Roman Catholic dioceses and prelatures established in the 20th century Territorial prelatures {{Brazil-RC-diocese-stub