Diocese of Paranavaí
The Diocese of Paranavaí is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Brazil. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Maringá in Paraná.
Its cathedral is Catedral Maria Mãe da Igreja, dedicated to Mary Mother of the Church, in the episcopal see of Paranavaí. The Bishop of Paranavaí has been Mário Spaki since 2018.
History
- 20 January 1968: Established as Diocese of Paranavaí, on territory split off from the then Diocese of Maringá under the Bishop Jaime Luiz Coelho.
Statistics
, it pastorally served 228,000 Catholics on 8,699 km2 in 35 parishes and 1 mission with 41 priests, 64 lay religious and 4 seminarians.Episcopal ordinaries and coadjutor bishop
;Suffragan Bishops of Paranavaí- Benjamin de Souza Gomes, died 1995
- Rubens Augusto de Souza Espínola previously Titular Bishop of Bilta as Auxiliary Bishop of Diocese of São Luís de Montes Belos, died 2017
- * Coadjutor Bishop: Elizeu de Morais Pimentel
- Sérgio Aparecido Colombo, appointed Bishop of Bragança Paulista, São Paulo
- Geremias Steinmetz, appointed Archbishop of Londrina, Parana
- Mário Spaki