The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Campo Grande ( la, Archidioecesis Campi Grandis) is a

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ecclesiastical territory or

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of the

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located in the city of

Campo Grande Campo Grande (, ) is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul in the Center-West region of the country. The city is nicknamed ''Cidade Morena'' ("Swarthy City" in Portuguese) because of the reddish-brown colour ...

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. It is a

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and has six

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Corumbá Corumbá is a municipality in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul, 425 km northwest of Campo Grande, the state's capital. It has a population of approximately 112,000 inhabitants, and its economy is based mainly on agriculture, animal ...

Coxim Coxim is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul. Its population was 33,459 (2020) and its area is 6,412 km². It was founded in 1729. It is located at the confluence of the Coxim and Taquari Taquari is a munici ...

Dourados Dourados is a Brazilian municipality, situated in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, Southwest of Campo Grande (the state's capital). It has a population of about 225,000 inhabitants, and its economy is based mainly in arable agriculture (particu ...

, Jardim,

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, and

Três Lagoas Três Lagoas ("Three Ponds") is a municipality in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. It is the third most populous city in that state. Founded in 1915, colonization began in 1880 by Luís Correia Neves Filho, Antônio Trajano dos Santos e Protásio Garci ...

History

* 15 June 1957: Established as Diocese of Campo Grande from the

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and

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 ...

* 27 November 1978: Promoted as Archdiocese of Campo Grande

Bishops

Ordinaries, in reverse chronological order

* Archbishops of Campo Grande ** Archbishop Dimas Lara Barbosa (2011.05.04 - present) ** Archbishop Vitório Pavanello, S.D.B. (1986.12.12 – 2011.05.04) ** Archbishop

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, S.D.B. (1978.11.27 – 1986.12.12) * Bishops of Campo Grande ** Bishop Antônio Barbosa, S.D.B. (later Archbishop) (1958.01.23 – 1978.11.27)

Coadjutor archbishop

* Vitório Pavanello, S.D.B. (1984-1986)

Auxiliary bishops

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, S.D.B. (2005-2015), appointed Bishop of Jaboticabal, São Paulo * Janusz Marian Danecki, O.F.M. Conv. (2015-

Sources

GCatholic.org

Archdiocese website
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