The Roman Catholic Diocese of Bragança do Pará ( la, Dioecesis Brigantiensis de Para) is a diocese located in the city of Bragança do Pará in the Ecclesiastical province of

Belém do Pará Belém (; Portuguese for Bethlehem; initially called Nossa Senhora de Belém do Grão-Pará, in English Our Lady of Bethlehem of Great Pará) often called Belém of Pará, is a Brazilian city, capital and largest city of the state of Pará in t ...

in Brazil.

History

* April 14, 1928: Established as Territorial Prelature of Gurupi from the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Belém do Pará * February 3, 1934: Renamed as Territorial Prelature of Guamá * October 16, 1979: Promoted as Diocese of Guamá * October 13, 1981: Renamed as Diocese of Bragança do Pará

Bishops

* Prelates of Guamá (Latin Rite) ** Eliseu Maria Coroli, B. (1940.08.10 – 1977.02.05) * Bishops of Guamá (Latin Rite) ** Miguel Maria Giambelli, B. (1980.04.21 – 1981.10.13) * Bishops of Bragança do Pará (Latin Rite) ** Miguel Maria Giambelli, B. (1981.10.13 – 1996.04.10) ** Luigi Ferrando (1996.04.10 – 2016.08.17) ** Jesús María Cizaurre Berdonces, O.A.R. (2016.08.17 - )

Other priest of this diocese who became bishop

* Manoel de Oliveira Soares Filho, appointed Bishop of Palmeira dos Índios, Alagoas in 2018

Sources

GCatholic.org

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