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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Cornélio Procópio () is a
diocese In Ecclesiastical polity, church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop. History In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided Roman province, prov ...
located in the city of Cornélio Procópio in the
ecclesiastical province An ecclesiastical province is one of the basic forms of jurisdiction in Christian churches, including those of both Western Christianity and Eastern Christianity, that have traditional hierarchical structures. An ecclesiastical province consist ...
of
Londrina Londrina (, literally "Little London") is a city located in the north of the state of Paraná (state), Paraná, South Region, Brazil, and is 388 km (241 miles) away from the state capital, Curitiba. It is the second largest city in the state and f ...
in Brazil.


History

* May 26, 1973: Established as Diocese of Cornélio Procópio from the Diocese of Jacarezinho


Bishops

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Bishop A bishop is an ordained member of the clergy who is entrusted with a position of Episcopal polity, authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance and administration of di ...
s of Cornélio Procópio (Roman rite), in reverse chronological order ** Bishop Marcos José dos Santos (2022.06.22 – present) ** Bishop Manoel João Francisco (2014.03.26 – 2022.06.22) ** Bishop Getúlio Teixeira Guimarães, S.V.D. (1984.03.26 – 2014.03.26) ** Bishop Domingos Gabriel Wisniewski, C.M. (1979.04.19 – 1983.05.17) ** Bishop José Joaquim Gonçalves (1973.06.14 – 1979.03.28)


Other priests of this diocese who became bishops

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Sérgio de Deus Borges Bishop Sérgio de Deus Borges (born 4 September 1966) is a Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, who served as an Auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of São Paulo and the Titular Bishop of Zarzis, Gergis since 27 June 2012 and was an ...
, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of São Paulo in 2012 * Aparecido Donizete de Souza, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul in 2015


References


GCatholic.org


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