Diocese of Barra do Garças, Brazil

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Name: Barra do Garças / Barragartien(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Cuiabá

Special Churches

Cathedral: Catedral Nossa Senhora da Guia, Barra do Garças, Mato Grosso

Rondonópolis–Guiratinga (↙), Primavera do Leste–Paranatinga (↖), São Félix (↑), Rubiataba–Mozarlândia (↗), Goiás (→), São Luís de Montes Belos (→), Jataí (↓)

Present Prelates

Bishop (2001.05.23 – ...):

Bishop Protógenes José Luft, S.C. (74)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Barra do Garças (Roman Rite)

Bishop Protógenes José Luft, S.C. (74)
(2001.05.23 – ...)

Bishop of Barra do Garças (Brazil)

Propter Caritatem

Born:	1949.05.06 (Palmeira das Missões, RS, Brazil)
Ordained Priest:	1975.12.07
Consecrated Bishop:	2000.03.26

Coadjutor Bishop of Barra do Garças (Brazil) (2000.01.26 – 2001.05.23)

Bishop of Barra do Garças (Brazil) (2001.05.23 – ...)

Bishop Antônio Sarto, S.D.B.
(1982.03.25 – 2001.05.23)

Escolhido dentre os homens, para os homens

Born:	1926.02.27 (Brazil)
Ordained Priest:	1951.06.01
Consecrated Bishop:	1971.08.15
Died:	2008.09.29 († 82)

Titular Bishop of Aræ in Mauretania (1971.05.18 – 1978.05.26)

Coadjutor Bishop-Prelate of Porto Velho (Brazil) (1971.05.18 – 1979.10.16)

Coadjutor Bishop of Porto Velho (Brazil) (1979.10.16 – 1982.03.25)

Bishop of Barra do Garças (Brazil) (1982.03.25 – 2001.05.23)

Former Prelates

Coadjutor Bishop: Bishop Protógenes José Luft, S.C. (74) (2000.01.26 – 2001.05.23)

Contact Info

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Statistics

Area: 70,930 km²

Population: 101,500 Catholics (61.8% of 164,300 total) (2020)

Statistics: 23 parishes, 2 missions, 20 priests (7 diocesan, 13 religious), 10 deacons, 61 lay religious (22 brothers, 39 sisters), 5 seminarians (2020)

History

1982.02.27: Established as Diocese of Barra do Garças / Barragartien(sis) (Latin) (from Diocese of Guiratinga and became suffragan of Cuiabá)
1997.12.23: Lost territory to establish Territorial Prelature of Paranatinga
2014.06.25: Gained territory from the suppressed Diocese of Guiratinga