Diocese of Santíssima Conceição do Araguaia Dioecesis Sanctissimae Conceptionis de Araguaia Diocese de Santíssima Conceição do Araguaia |
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Location | |
Country | Brazil |
Ecclesiastical province | Belém do Pará |
Metropolitan | Belém do Pará |
Statistics | |
Area | 52,500 km2 (20,300 sq mi) |
Population - Total - Catholics |
(as of 2010) 291,000 225,000 (77.3%) |
Information | |
Rite | Latin Rite |
Established | 18 July 1911 (106 years ago) |
Cathedral | Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Conceição do Araguaia |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Bishop | Dominique Marie Jean Denis You |
Metropolitan Archbishop | Alberto Taveira Corrêa |
Website | |
Website of the Diocese |
The Roman Catholic Diocese of (Santíssima) Conceição do Araguaia (Latin: Dioecesis Sanctissimae Conceptionis de Araguaia) is a Latin suffragan diocese of the Roman Catholic church, in the Ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan of Belém do Pará in Brazil.
Its cathedral see is Catedral Nossa Senhora da Conceição ('Our Lady of (Immaculate) Conception'), in the city of Conceição do Araguaia.
(all Roman rite; mostly missionary members of Latin congregations)