Diocese of Guajará-Mirim, Brazil 🇧🇷

Continent: South America

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Guajará-Mirim / Guaiaramiren(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Porto Velho

Neighbouring Dioceses: Pando (↙), Porto Velho (↗), Ji-Paraná (→), Juína (↘), San Ignacio de Velasco (↘), El Beni (↓)

Depends on: Dicastery for Bishops

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Celebrations

Patron Saint: Nossa Senhora do Seringueiro (December 8)

Liturgical Calendar (National) 📅

History

1929.03.01: Established as Territorial Prelature of Guajará-Mirim / Guaiaramiren(sis) (Latin) (from Diocese of São Luiz de Cáceres and Territorial Prelature of Porto Velho and became suffragan of Belém do Pará)
1952.02.16: Became suffragan of Manaus
1978.01.03: Lost territory to establish Territorial Prelature of Vila Rondônia
1979.10.16: Promoted as Diocese of Guajará-Mirim / Guaiaramiren(sis) (Latin)
1982.10.04: Became suffragan of Porto Velho

Present Prelates

Bishop:

vacant

Ordinaries

Bishops of Guajará-Mirim (Roman Rite)

Bishop Benedito Araújo (62)
(2011.12.09 – 2025.11.07)

Bishop of Campo Maior (Brazil)

Deus caritas est

Born:	1963.11.21 (Paço do Lumiar, MA, Brazil)
Ordained Priest:	1991.11.17
Consecrated Bishop:	2011.06.04

Priest of São Luís do Maranhão (Brazil) (1991.11.17 – 2011.03.23)

Coadjutor Bishop of Guajará-Mirim (Brazil) (2011.03.23 – 2011.12.09)

Bishop of Guajará-Mirim (Brazil) (2011.12.09 – 2025.11.07)

Apostolic Administrator of Porto Velho (Brazil) (2015.04.22 – 2015.10.14)

Bishop of Campo Maior (Brazil) (2025.11.07 – ...)

Bishop Geraldo João Paulo Roger Verdier
(1980.07.31 – 2011.12.09)

Deus Caritas

Born:	1937.03.28 (Alban, France)
Ordained Priest:	1963.03.30
Consecrated Bishop:	1980.10.25
Died:	2017.10.22 (Porto Velho, RO, Brazil † 80)

Bishop of Guajará-Mirim (Brazil) (1980.07.31 – 2011.12.09)

Prelates of Guajará-Mirim (Roman Rite)

Bishop Luiz Roberto Gomes de Arruda, T.O.R.
(1966.03.12 – 1978.11.03)

Born:	1914.06.21 (São Luiz de Cáceres, MG, Brazil)
Ordained Priest:	1945.06.29
Consecrated Bishop:	1966.08.15
Died:	2003.12.06 (Guajará-Mirim, RO, Brazil † 89)

Coadjutor Bishop-Prelate of Guajará-Mirim (Brazil) (1964.04.24 – 1966.03.12)

Bishop-Prelate of Guajará-Mirim (Brazil) (1966.03.12 – 1978.11.03)

Titular Bishop of Feradi minus (1966.03.23 – 1978.05.26)

Bishop Francisco Xavier Elias Pedro Paulo Rey, T.O.R.
(1945.05.19 – 1966.03.12)

Born:	1902.06.29 (Fauch, France)
Ordained Priest:	1929.06.23
Consecrated Bishop:	1945.09.09
Died:	1984.01.20 († 81)

Bishop-Prelate of Guajará-Mirim (Brazil) (1945.05.19 – 1966.03.12)

Titular Bishop of Phacusa (1945.05.19 – 1984.01.20)

Former Prelates

Coadjutor Bishop: Bishop Benedito Araújo (62) (2011.03.23 – 2011.12.09)
Coadjutor Bishop-Prelate: Bishop-elect Luiz Roberto Gomes de Arruda, T.O.R. (1964.04.24 – 1966.03.12)
Auxiliary Bishop: Bishop José María Pinheiro (87) (1997.02.12 – 2003.08.06)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Catedral Nossa Senhora do Seringueiro, Guajará-Mirim, Rondônia
Minor Basilica: Basílica-Santuário do Senhor Divino Espírito Santo, Costa Marques, Rondônia

Churches by City (15)

Pando (↙), Porto Velho (↗), Ji-Paraná (→), Juína (↘), San Ignacio de Velasco (↘), El Beni (↓)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 91,282 km²

Population: 113,000 Catholics (57.1% of 197,870 total)

Pastoral Centres: 13 parishes

Personnel: 12 priests (11 diocesan, 1 religious), 11 deacons, 34 religious (3 brothers, 31 sisters), 4 seminarians