Roman Catholic Diocese of Guarda, Portugal

{{Short description|Roman Catholic diocese in Portugal}}

{{Infobox diocese

|jurisdiction = Diocese

|name = Guarda

|latin = Dioecesis Aegitaniensis

|local = Diocese da Guarda

|image = Nt-se-guarda-edited.jpg

|image_size = 230px

|image_alt =

|caption = Guarda Cathedral

|country = {{flag|Portugal}}

|metropolitan = Patriarchate of Lisbon

|province = Lisbon

|rite = Roman Rite

|cathedral = Guarda Cathedral

|cocathedral =

|area_km2 = 6,758

|population = 259,880

|population_as_of = 2021

|catholics = 249,250

|catholics_percent= 95.9

|pope = {{Incumbent pope}}

|bishop = Manuel da Rocha Felício

|metro_archbishop = Manuel III

|coadjutor =

|auxiliary_bishops=

|emeritus_bishops =

| map = Dioceses de Portugal.PNG

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| website = [http://www.diocesedaguarda.pt/ Website of the Diocese]

| footnotes =

|denomination=Catholic Church|priests=97 (Diocesan)
13 (Religious Orders)
21 Permanent Deacons|patron=Assumption of Mary|parishes=361|sui_iuris_church=Latin Church|established=6th Century}}

The Diocese of Guarda ({{langx|la|Dioecesis Aegitaniensis}}) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic church in central eastern Portugal, a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the Latin Patriarchate of Lisbon in southern Portugal.

The present episcopal seat is in Guarda Cathedral ({{langx|pt|Catedral de Nossa Senhora da Consolação}}) in the city of Guarda. The diocese also contains the Church of São Luís in Pinhel, once the cathedral of the former diocese of Pinhel, absorbed into the diocese of Guarda in 1881.[https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dp511.html Catholic Hierarchy: Diocese of Pinhel]

Statistics

As per 2014, it pastorally served 253,300 Catholics (96.0% of 263,900 total) on 6,759 km² in 361 parishes and 3 missions with 140 priests (126 diocesan, 14 religious), 17 deacons, 133 lay religious (26 brothers, 107 sisters) and 5 seminarians.

History

Episcopal ordinaries

(all Roman rite) http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/guar3.htm GCatholic.orgWikipedia:SPS

;Suffragan Bishops of Guarda

:BIOs TO ELABORATE

See also

References