Archdiocese of Palmas, Brazil 🇧🇷 (original) (raw)

1996.03.27: Established as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Palmas / Palmen(sis) in Brasilia (Latin) (from Diocese of Miracema do Tocantins and Diocese of Porto Nacional and with suffragan sees Miracema do Tocantins, Porto Nacional, Tocantinópolis and Cristalândia)
2023.01.31: Gained suffragan see Araguaína

Metropolitan Archbishop (2010.10.20 – ...):	Archbishop Pedro Brito Guimarães (70)

Area: 34,097 km²

Population: 203,000 Catholics (56.8% of 357,600 total)

Pastoral Centres: 35 parishes, 1 mission

Personnel: 100 priests (83 diocesan, 17 religious), 43 deacons, 75 religious (19 brothers, 56 sisters), 8 seminarians