Diocese of Goiás
The Diocese of Goiás is Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church located in the city of Goiás. It is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Goiânia in Brazil.
History
- December 6, 1745: Established as Territorial Prelature of Goiás from the Diocese of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro
- July 15, 1826: Promoted as Diocese of Goiás
- November 18, 1932: Promoted as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Goiás
- March 26, 1956: Demoted as Diocese of Goiás
Bishops
Ordinaries, in reverse chronological order
- Bishops of Goiás, below
- * Bishop Jeová Elias Ferreira
- * Bishop Eugène Lambert Adrian Rixen
- * Bishop Tomás Balduino, O.P.
- * Bishop Abel Ribeiro Camelo
- * Bishop Cândido Bento Maria Penso, O.P.
- Metropolitan Archbishops of Goiás, below
- * Archbishop Emanuel (Manoel) Gomes de Oliveira, S.D.B.
- Bishops of Goiás, below
- * Bishop Emanuel Gomes de Oliveira, S.D.B.
- * Bishop Prudencio Gomes da Silva
- * Bishop Eduardo Duarte e Silva, appointed Bishop of Uberaba; future Archbishop
- * Bishop Joaquim Arcoverde de Albuquerque Cavalcanti ; future Archbishop and Cardinal
- * Bishop Cláudio José Gonçalves Ponce de Leão, C.M., appointed Bishop of São Pedro do Rio Grande do Sul; future Archbishop
- * Bishop Antônio Maria Corrêa de Sá e Benevides, appointed Bishop of Mariana
- * Bishop Joaquim Gonçalves de Azevedo, appointed Archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia
- * Bishop Domingos Quirino de Souza
- * Bishop Francisco Ferreira de Azevedo
- * Bishop Francisco Ferreira de Azevedo
- Prelates of Goiás, below
- * Bishop Antônio Rodrigues de Aguiar
- * Bishop Vicente Alexandre de Tovar
- * Bishop José Nicolau de Azevedo Coutinho Gentil
- * Bishop Vicente do Espirito Santo, O.A.D.
Auxiliary bishop
- Abel Ribeiro Camelo, appointed Bishop of Jataí, Goias