Diocese of Guarda Dioecesis Aegitaniensis Diocese da Guarda | |
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Location | |
Country | Portugal |
Ecclesiastical province | Lisbon |
Metropolitan | Patriarchate of Lisbon |
Statistics | |
Area | 6,758 km2 (2,609 sq mi) |
Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2006) 260,700 250,700 (96.2%) |
Information | |
Rite | Latin Rite |
Cathedral | Guarda Cathedral |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Bishop | Manuel da Rocha Felício |
Metropolitan Archbishop | Manuel III |
Map | |
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.
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]
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.
(all Roman rite) [2]
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