Diocese of Guarda


The Diocese of Guarda 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 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.

Statistics

As per 2014, it pastorally served 253,300 Catholics on 6,759 km² in 361 parishes and 3 missions with 140 priests, 17 deacons, 133 lay religious and 5 seminarians.

History

;Suffragan Bishops of Guarda