The Roman Catholic Diocese of Campo Mourão () is a

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Latin

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in the

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of the Metropolitan of

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in Paraná state, southern

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. Its

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episcopal see is Catedral São José, dedicated to Saint Joseph, in the city of

Campo Mourão Campo Mourão is a municipality in the state of Paraná (state), Paraná in Brazil. Its population in 2020 was 95,488. The people from Campo Mourão are called ''Mourãoenses''. History The region of the "Fields" bordered by the Atlantic forest ...

History

* Established on 20 June 1959 as Diocese of Campo Mourão, on territory split off from the suppressed Territorial Prelature of Foz do Iguaçu * It lost territories thrice : on 1964.11.28 to establish the Diocese of Apucarana, on 1965.12.16 to establish the Diocese of Guarapuava and on 1973.05.26 to establish the Diocese of Umuarama.

Statistics

As per 2014, it pastorally served 323,000 Catholics (82.4% of 392,000 total) on 12,187 km² in 39 parishes and a mission with 65 priests (57 diocesan, 8 religious), 5 deacons, 90 lay religious (21 brothers, 69 sisters) and 13 seminarians.

Bishops

(all

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)

Episcopal ordinaries

;''Suffragan Bishops of Campo Mourão'' * Elizeu Simões Mendes (17 October 1959 - retired 3 December 1980), died 2001; previously

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of Nisyrus (1950.08.21 – 1953.09.19) as

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of Archdiocese of Fortaleza (Brazil) (1950.08.21 – 1953.09.19), Bishop of

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(Brazil) (1953.09.19 – 1959.10.17) * Virgílio de Pauli (8 May 1981 - death 21 February 1999) * Mauro Aparecido dos Santos (21 February 1999 - 31 October 2007), next Archbishop of Archdiocese of Cascavel, Parana (Brazil) (2007.10.31 – ...); previously

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of Campo Mourão (1998.05.27 – succession 1999.02.21) * Francisco Javier Del Valle Paredes (born

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) (24 December 2008 - 6 December 2017) * Bruno Eliseu Versari (2017.12.06 - ...), previously

of Campo Mourão (2017.04.19 – 2017.12.06), no previous prelature.

Coadjutor bishops

* Mauro Aparecido dos Santos (1999-2007) * Bruno Elizeu Versari (2017)

Sources and external links

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

Diocese website (Portuguese)
Roman Catholic dioceses in Brazil Religious organizations established in 1959 Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Maringá Roman Catholic dioceses and prelatures established in the 20th century