Diocese of Primavera do Leste–Paranatinga
The Diocese of Primavera do Leste–Paranatinga is a Latin suffragan Roman Catholic Diocese in the state of Mato Grosso, in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archbishop of Cuiabá in Brazil.
Its Cathedral episcopal see is the Catedral São Cristóvão, in Primavera do Leste. It also has a Co-Cathedral Co-Catedral São Francisco Xavier, in Paranatinga.
History
- On December 23, 1997, the Territorial Prelature of Paranatinga was established on territory split off from the Diocese of Barra do Garças, Diocese of Rondonópolis and Diocese of Sinop
- 25 June 2014: Suppressed to become Diocese of Primavera do Leste–Paranatinga
Leadership
; Territorial Prelates of Paranatinga- Vital Chitolina, Dehonians, S.C.I., later Bishop of Diamantino