Archdiocese of Montes Claros Archidioecesis Montisclarensis | |
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Location | |
Country | Brazil |
Statistics | |
Area | 45,450 km2 (17,550 sq mi) |
Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2004) 732,679 549,509 (75.0%) |
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Rite | Latin Rite |
Established | 10 December 1910 (113 years ago) |
Cathedral | Our Lady of Apparition Cathedral, Montes Claros |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Archbishop | José Carlos de Souza Campos |
Bishops emeritus | José Alberto Moura, C.S.S. |
Website | |
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The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Montes Claros (Latin : Archidioecesis Montisclarensis) is a Latin Rite Metropolitan archdiocese in Minas Gerais, Brazil. [1]
Its cathedral archiepiscopal see is the Catedral Metropolitana Nossa Senhora Aparecida, dedicated to Our Lady of Aparecida, in the city of Montes Claros.
Its Suffragan dioceses are all three daughter sees :
As per 2014, it pastorally served 664,000 Catholics (81.2% of 818,000 total) on 45,520 km2 in 60 parishes and 2 missions with 108 priests (74 diocesan, 34 religious), 21 deacons, 163 lay religious (58 brothers, 105 sisters) and 22 seminarians .
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