Diocese of Formosa, Brazil
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Formosa is a Latin suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of Brasília in central Brazil.
Its cathedral episcopal see is Catedral Nossa Senhora da Imaculada Conceição, dedicated to Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, in the city of Formosa, in the state of Goiás, central Brazil.
History
- Established on March 26, 1956, as the Territorial Prelature of Formosa, on territory split off from the then Archdiocese of Goiás and from the suppressed Territorial Prelature of São José de Alto Tocantins
- Promoted on October 16, 1979, as the Diocese of Formosa.
Statistics
As per 2014, it pastorally serves 256,900 Catholics on 47,604 km2 in 27 parishes and 240 missions with 37 priests, 52 lay religious and 14 seminarians.Ordinaries
;Bishop-Prelates of Formosa- Victor João Herman José Tielbeek, Picpus Fathers, Titular Bishop of Tipasa in Numidia, born 1919.08.16 in the Netherlands
- Victor João Herman José Tielbeek, SS.CC.
- João Casimiro Wilk, O.F.M. Conv., transferred Bishop of Anápolis, born Poland 1951.09.18
- Paulo Roberto Beloto, first Brazilian incumbent; transferred Bishop of Franca
- José Ronaldo Ribeiro, previously Bishop of Janaúba ; retired
- Adair José Guimarães (2019.02.27 -
Another priest of this diocese who became bishop
- Dilmo Franco de Campos, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Anápolis, Goias in 2019