Diocese of Guarda

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Diocese of Guarda

Dioecesis Aegitaniensis

Diocese da Guarda
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Location
CountryFlag of Portugal (official).svg Portugal
Ecclesiastical province Lisbon
Metropolitan Patriarchate of Lisbon
Statistics
Area6,758 km2 (2,609 sq mi)
Population
  • Total
  • Catholics
  • (as of 2021)
  • 259,880
  • 249,250 (95.9%)
Parishes361
Information
Denomination Catholic Church
Sui iuris church Latin Church
Rite Roman Rite
Established6th Century
Cathedral Guarda Cathedral
Patron saint Assumption of Mary
Secular priests 97 (Diocesan)
13 (Religious Orders)
21 Permanent Deacons
Current leadership
Pope Leo XIV
Bishop Manuel da Rocha Felício
Metropolitan Archbishop Manuel III
Map
Dioceses de Portugal.PNG
Website
Website of the Diocese

The Diocese of Guarda (Latin : Dioecesis Aegitaniensis) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic church in central eastern Portugal, a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the Latin Patriarchate of Lisbon in southern Portugal.

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The present episcopal seat is in Guarda Cathedral (Portuguese : Catedral de Nossa Senhora da Consolação) in the city of Guarda. The diocese also contains the Church of São Luís in Pinhel, once the cathedral of the former diocese of Pinhel, absorbed into the diocese of Guarda in 1881. [1]

Statistics

As per 2014, it pastorally served 253,300 Catholics (96.0% of 263,900 total) on 6,759 km² in 361 parishes and 3 missions with 140 priests (126 diocesan, 14 religious), 17 deacons, 133 lay religious (26 brothers, 107 sisters) and 5 seminarians.

History

Episcopal ordinaries

(all Roman rite) [2]

Suffragan Bishops of Guarda
BIOs TO ELABORATE

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Catholic Hierarchy: Diocese of Pinhel
  2. http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/guar3.htm GCatholic.org[self-published]

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