Diocese of Colatina, Brazil 🇧🇷

Continent: South America

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Colatina / Colatinen(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Vitória

Neighbouring Dioceses: Governador Valadares (←), São Mateus (↗), Vitória (↓)

Depends on: Dicastery for Bishops

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Celebrations

Patron Saint: Nossa Senhora da Saúde (November 21)

Liturgical Calendar (National) 📅

History

1990.04.23: Established as Diocese of Colatina / Colatinen(sis) (Latin) (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Vitória and became suffragan of Vitória)
1997.11.28: Lost territory to Diocese of São Mateus

Present Prelates

Bishop (2021.10.27 – ...):

Bishop Lauro Sérgio Versiani Barbosa (66)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Colatina (Roman Rite)

Bishop Lauro Sérgio Versiani Barbosa (66)
(2021.10.27 – ...)

Bishop of Colatina (Brazil)

Caritas Christi urget

Born:	1959.04.29 (Ouro Preto, MG, Brazil)
Ordained Priest:	1995.09.02
Consecrated Bishop:	2022.01.25

Priest of Mariana (Brazil) (1995.09.02 – 2021.10.27)

Bishop of Colatina (Brazil) (2021.10.27 – ...)

Bishop Joaquim Wladimir Lopes Dias (68)
(2015.03.04 – 2021.01.13)

Bishop of Lorena (Brazil)

Fiat mihi secundum verbum tuum

Born:	1957.10.23 (Cafelândia, SP, Brazil)
Ordained Priest:	1997.12.12
Consecrated Bishop:	2012.03.04

Priest of Jundiaí (Brazil) (1997.12.12 – 2011.12.21)

Titular Bishop of Sita (2011.12.21 – 2015.03.04)

Auxiliary Bishop of Vitória (Brazil) (2011.12.21 – 2015.03.04)

Apostolic Administrator of Colatina (Brazil) (2014.05.14 – 2015.03.04)

Bishop of Colatina (Brazil) (2015.03.04 – 2021.01.13)

Bishop of Lorena (Brazil) (2021.01.13 – ...)

Bishop Joaquim Wladimir Lopes Dias (68)
(Apostolic Administrator 2014.05.14 – 2015.03.04)

Bishop Décio Sossai Zandonade, S.D.B. (83)
(2003.05.14 – 2014.05.14)

Bishop emeritus of Colatina (Brazil)

Domine, ut videam

Born:	1942.12.02 (Venda Nova do Imigrante, ES, Brazil)
Ordained Priest:	1972.12.11
Consecrated Bishop:	1997.02.02

Titular Bishop of Gemellæ in Byzacena (1996.12.11 – 2003.05.14)

Auxiliary Bishop of Belo Horizonte (Brazil) (1996.12.11 – 2003.05.14)

Bishop of Colatina (Brazil) (2003.05.14 – 2014.05.14)

Bishop Geraldo Lyrio Rocha (later Archbishop)
(1990.04.23 – 2002.01.16)

Opus Fac Evangelistæ

Born:	1942.03.14 (Fundão, ES, Brazil)
Ordained Priest:	1967.08.15
Consecrated Bishop:	1984.05.31
Died:	2023.07.26 (Altamira, PA, Brazil † 81)

Priest of Vitória (Brazil) (1967.08.15 – 1984.03.14)

Titular Bishop of Thelepte (1984.03.14 – 1990.04.23)

Auxiliary Bishop of Vitória (Brazil) (1984.03.14 – 1990.04.23)

Bishop of Colatina (Brazil) (1990.04.23 – 2002.01.16)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Vitória da Conquista (Brazil) (2002.01.16 – 2007.04.11)

Second Vice-President of Latin American Episcopal Council (2003 – 2007.07.12)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Mariana (Brazil) (2007.04.11 – 2018.04.25)

President of National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (2007.05 – 2011.05.10)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Catedral Sagrado Coração de Jesus, Colatina, Espírito Santo
Jubilee Churches in the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy (2016)

Churches by City (34)

Governador Valadares (←), São Mateus (↗), Vitória (↓)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 13,076 km²

Population: 525,000 Catholics (80.2% of 654,400 total)

Pastoral Centres: 31 parishes, 2 missions

Personnel: 60 priests (45 diocesan, 15 religious), 12 deacons, 85 religious (19 brothers, 66 sisters), 8 seminarians