Diocese of Primavera do Leste–Paranatinga, Brazil 🇧🇷 (original) (raw)

1997.12.23: Established as Territorial Prelature of Paranatinga (Português) / Paranatinguen(sis) (Latin) (from Diocese of Barra do Garças, Diocese of Rondonópolis and Diocese of Sinop and became suffragan of Cuiabá)
2014.06.25: Promoted as Diocese of Primavera do Leste–Paranatinga (Português) / Orientalis Veris–Paranatinguen(sis) (Latin) (gained territory from Diocese of Rondonópolis and gained territory from the suppressed Diocese of Guiratinga)

Area: 89,636 km²

Population: 146,000 Catholics (61.6% of 237,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 20 parishes, 1 mission

Personnel: 33 priests (23 diocesan, 10 religious), 5 deacons, 39 religious (16 brothers, 23 sisters), 8 seminarians