Diocese of Ipameri
The Diocese of Ipameri 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 Goiânia.
Its cathedral is Catedral Divino Espírito Santo, dedicated to the Holy Spirit, in the episcopal see of Ipameri. The current bishop is José Francisco Rodrigues do Rêgo.
History
- Established on 11 October 1966 as Diocese of Ipameri, on territory split from its Metropolitan, the Archdiocese of Goiania.
- Lost territory on 1989.03.29 to establish the Diocese of Luziânia
Statistics
Episcopal Ordinaries
;Bishops of Ipameri- Gilberto [Pereira Lopes], next Titular Archbishop of Aurusuliana as Coadjutor Archbishop of Campinas , succeeding as Metropolitan Archbishop of Campinas
- Antônio Ribeiro [de Oliveira] ; previously Titular Bishop of Arindela as Auxiliary Bishop of Goiânia ; later Metropolitan Archbishop of Goiânia , died 2017
- Tarcísio Sebastião [Batista Lopes], O.F.M. Cap., died 2001: previously Bishop of Roman [Catholic Diocese of Grajaú|Grajaú]
- * Apostolic Administrator Archbishop Geraldo do Espírito Santo Ávila, while Titular Archbishop of Gemellæ in Numidia as Archbishop [Military Ordinariate] of Brazil ; previously Titular Bishop of Gemellæ in Numidia as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Brasília
- Guilherme Antônio Werlang, Missionaries of the Holy Family ), next Bishop of Lages .
- José Francisco Rodrigues do Rêgo