The Roman Catholic Diocese of São Luíz de Cáceres ( la, Dioecesis Sancti Aloisii de Caceres) is a

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Latin

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in the

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of the Metropolitan

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state, western central

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. Its

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episcopal see is Catedral São Luiz de França, dedicated to Saint King

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, in the city of Cáceres.

History

* Established on April 5, 1910 as Diocese of São Luíz de Cáceres, without missionary stage, on territory split off from its Metropolitan, the Archdiocese of Cuiaba * Lost territories twice : on 1925.05.01 to establish the

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and on 1929.03.01 to establish the

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Statistics

As per 2014, it pastorally served 351,000 Catholics (78.2% of 449,000 total) on 135,969 km² in 23 parishes with 42 priests (25 diocesan, 17 religious), 1 deacon, 75 lay religious (23 brothers, 52 sisters) and 16 seminarians.

Bishops

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Episcopal ordinaries

;''Suffragan Bishops of São Luíz de Cáceres'' * Modesto Augusto Vieira (born Brazil) (1911.05.12 – 1914.01.12), next

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(1914.01.12 – 1916.09.27) as Auxiliary Bishop of

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(Brazil) (1914.01.12 – death 1916.09.27) * Pedro Luis Maria Galibert,

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(T.O.R.) (born France) (1915.03.13 – retired 1954.04.27), emeritate as Titular Bishop of Platæa (1954.04.27 – death 1965.12.24) **

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Father Máximo André Biennès, T.O.R. (born France) (1955 – 1967.11.03 ''see below''), without previous prelature * Máximo André Biennès, T.O.R. (''see above'' 1967.11.03 – retired 1991.07.24), died 2007 ** Auxiliary Bishop: José Afonso Ribeiro, T.O.R. (born Brazil) (1979.01.29 – 1988.07.06), Titular Bishop of

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(1979.01.29 – 1988.07.06); later second Bishop-Prelate of

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(Brazil) (1988.07.06 – retired 2006.05.03), died 2009 * Paulo Antônio de Conto (born Brazil) (1991.07.24 – 1998.05.27), next Bishop of Criciúma (Brazil) (1998.05.27 – 2008.07.02), Bishop of

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(Brazil) (2008.07.02 – ...),

of Archdiocese of Passo Fundo (Brazil) (2015.07.15 – 2015.12.02) * José Vieira de Lima, T.O.R. (born Brazil) (1998.11.11 – retired 2008.07.23); previously Bishop of Marabá (Brazil) (1990.04.18 – 1998.11.11) * Antônio Emidio Vilar, Salesians of Don Bosco (S.D.B.) (born Brazil) (2008.07.23 - 2016.09.28), next Bishop of

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(Brazil) (2016.09.28 – ...) * Jacy Diniz Rocha (2017.05.10 – ...), no previous prelature.

Auxiliary bishop

* José Afonso Ribeiro, T.O.R. (1979-1988), appointed Prelate of Borba, Amazonas

References

Sources and external links

GCatholic.org, with Google photo - data for all sections

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