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Roman Catholic Diocese of Guarda, Portugal

Coordinates: 40°32′18″N 7°16′10″W / 40.5384°N 7.2694°W / 40.5384; -7.2694
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Diocese of Guarda

Dioecesis Aegitaniensis

Diocese da Guarda
Location
Country Portugal
Ecclesiastical provinceLisbon
MetropolitanPatriarchate of Lisbon
Statistics
Area6,758 km2 (2,609 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics
(as of 2021)
259,880
249,250 (95.9%)
Parishes361
Information
DenominationCatholic Church
Sui iuris churchLatin Church
RiteRoman Rite
Established6th Century
CathedralGuarda Cathedral
Patron saintAssumption of Mary
Secular priests97 (Diocesan)
13 (Religious Orders)
21 Permanent Deacons
Current leadership
PopeFrancis
BishopManuel da Rocha Felício
Metropolitan ArchbishopManuel III
Map
Website
Website of the Diocese

The Diocese of Guarda (Latin: 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 (Portuguese: 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.[1]

Statistics

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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

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Episcopal ordinaries

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(all Roman rite) [2]

Suffragan Bishops of Guarda
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40°32′18″N 7°16′10″W / 40.5384°N 7.2694°W / 40.5384; -7.2694