Diocese of

Guarapuava

Brazil

Continent: South America

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Area: 27,360 km²

Population: 387,666 Catholics (70.0% of 553,809 total) (2018)

Statistics: 47 parishes, 3 missions, 87 priests (42 diocesan, 45 religious), 101 lay religious (50 brothers, 51 sisters), 11 seminarians (2018)

Ecclesiastical Province: Curitiba

Neighbouring Dioceses: Cascavel (←), Campo Mourão (↖), Apucarana (↑), Ponta Grossa (→), União da Vitória (↘), Palmas–Francisco Beltrão (↓)

Depends on: Congregation for Bishops

Patron Saint: Santo António de Lisboa (June 13)

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History

1965.12.16: Established as Diocese of Guarapuava / Guarapuaven(sis) (Latin) (from Diocese of Campo Mourão, Diocese of Ponta Grossa and Diocese of Toledo)
1976.12.03: Lost territory to establish Diocese of União da Vitória

Special Churches

Cathedral: Catedral Nossa Senhora de Belém, Guarapuava, Paraná
Shrines in the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy

Cascavel (←), Campo Mourão (↖), Apucarana (↑), Ponta Grossa (→), União da Vitória (↘), Palmas–Francisco Beltrão (↓)

Present Prelates

Bishop (2020.05.06 – ...):

Bishop Amilton Manoel da Silva, C.P. (58)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Guarapuava (Roman Rite)

Bishop Amilton Manoel da Silva, C.P. (58)
(2020.05.06 – ...)

Bishop of Guarapuava (Brazil)

Christi in cruce gloriari

Born:	1963.03.02 (Osvaldo Cruz, Brazil)
Ordained Priest:	2000.12.17
Consecrated Bishop:	2017.08.19

Titular Bishop of Tusuros (2017.06.07 – 2020.05.06)

Auxiliary Bishop of Curitiba (Brazil) (2017.06.07 – 2020.05.06)

Bishop of Guarapuava (Brazil) (2020.05.06 – ...)

Bishop Antônio Wagner da Silva, S.C.I. (77)
(2003.07.02 – 2020.05.06)

Bishop emeritus of Guarapuava (Brazil)

Born:	1944.03.25 (Brazil)
Ordained Priest:	1971.12.11
Consecrated Bishop:	2000.06.18

Coadjutor Bishop of Guarapuava (Brazil) (2000.03.29 – 2003.07.02)

Bishop of Guarapuava (Brazil) (2003.07.02 – 2020.05.06)

Bishop Giovanni Zerbini, S.D.B. (93)
(1995.01.11 – 2003.07.02)

Bishop emeritus of Guarapuava (Brazil)

Major est caritas

Born:	1927.12.29 (Italy)
Ordained Priest:	1956.06.29
Consecrated Bishop:	1995.02.19

Bishop of Guarapuava (Brazil) (1995.01.11 – 2003.07.02)

Bishop Albano Bortoletto Cavallin (later Archbishop)
(1986.10.24 – 1992.03.11)

Interpretabatur in Scripturis

Born:	1930.04.25 (Brazil)
Ordained Priest:	1953.12.06
Consecrated Bishop:	1973.08.28
Died:	2017.02.01 († 86)

Titular Bishop of Aquæ novæ in Numidia (1973.06.14 – 1986.10.24)

Auxiliary Bishop of Curitiba (Brazil) (1973.06.14 – 1986.10.24)

Bishop of Guarapuava (Brazil) (1986.10.24 – 1992.03.11)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Londrina (Brazil) (1992.03.11 – 2006.05.10)

Bishop Friedrich Helmel, S.V.D.
(1966.03.19 – 1986.09.27)

Caritas Christi urget nos

Born:	1911.05.02 (Austria)
Ordained Priest:	1937.10.31
Consecrated Bishop:	1966.05.19
Died:	1993.09.12 († 82)

Bishop of Guarapuava (Brazil) (1966.03.19 – 1986.09.27)

Former Prelates

Coadjutor Bishop: Bishop Antônio Wagner da Silva, S.C.I. (77) (2000.03.29 – 2003.07.02)

as of 2021.09.23

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