Roman Catholic Diocese of São João del Rei

The diocese comprises 25 municipalities.

According to the modern (2017) Brazilian geographic classification by the National Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), the municipalities belong to 5 immediate geographic regions, which themselves belong to 4 intermediate geographic regions.

Immediate Geographic Region of São João del-Rei

Thirteen municipalities at the Immediate Geographic Region of São João del-Rei.

• São João del-Rei
• Conceição da Barra de Minas
• Coronel Xavier Chaves
• Lagoa Dourada
• Madre de Deus de Minas
• Nazareno
• Piedade do Rio Grande
• Prados
• Resende Costa
• Ritápolis
• Santa Cruz de Minas
• São Vicente de Minas
• Tiradentes

Ecclesiastical Province of Juiz de Fora.

Note: of the 14 municipalities in the Immediate Geographic Region of São João del-Rei, only São Tiago belongs to an other diocese: the Diocese of Oliveira, in the ecclesiastical province of Belo Horizonte.

Immediate Geographic Region of Barbacena

Two municipalities at the Immediate Geographic Region of Barbacena.

• Barroso
• Dores de Campos

Roman Catholic Diocese of São João del Rei.

Roman Catholic Diocese of São João del-Rei, Minas Gerais state, and its six administrative divisions (foranias). Each administrative division has a headquarter in a municipality. Beige: Our Lady of the Harbor of Eternal Salvation, Andrelândia. Pink: Our Lady of the Pillar, São João del-Rei. Red: Conception of Our Lady, Prados. Green: Good Jesus of Matosinhos, São João del-Rei. Blue: Our Lady of Nazareth, Nazareno. Purple: Saint Anne, Lavras.

The 25 municipalities are divided in six smaller administrative regions called foranies. The parishes from the municipality of São João del-Rei belong to two distinct foranies.[2]

• Forania of Our Lady of the Pillar: seven parishes of São João del-Rei. Headquartered in São João del-Rei.

• Forania of Good Jesus of Matosinhos: seven parishes of São João del-Rei and all the parishes from the municipalities of Santa Cruz de Minas, Coronel Xavier Chaves and Ritápolis. Headquartered in São João del-Rei.

• Forania of Conception of Our Lady: all the parishes from the municipalities of Tiradentes, Prados, Resende Costa, Lagoa Dourada, Barroso and Dores de Campos. Headquartered in Prados.

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  Our Lady of Mercy in São João del-Rei.
  Forania of Our Lady of Nazareth: all the parishes from the municipalities of Conceição da Barra de Minas, Nazareno, Itutinga, Itumirim and Ibituruna. Headquartered in Nazareno.

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  Our Lady of Mercy in Tiradentes.
  Forania of Our Lady of the Harbor of Eternal Salvation: all the parishes from the municipalities of Piedade do Rio Grande, Madre de Deus de Minas, São Vicente de Minas, Carrancas, Minduri and Andrelândia. Headquartered in Andrelândia.

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  Our Lady of Nazareth in Nazareno.
  Forania of Saint Anne: all the parishes from the municipalities of Lavras, Ijaci, Ingaí and Luminárias. Headquartered in Lavras.

Saint Anne in Lavras.

On May 21, 1960, the Diocese of São João del-Rei was established as Dioecesis Sancti Ioannis a Rege (Latin), on territories split off from the Diocese of Campanha, Archdiocese of Mariana, and (then) Diocese of Juiz de Fora.

As per 2015, its pastoral services reached 506,000 Catholics (85.1% of the total population, 594 800), on 9 503 km², and 40 parishes.

All suffragan bishops to this date have been Roman rite native Brazilians.

• Delfim Ribeiro Guedes (1960-07-23 – retired 1983-12-07), died 1985; previously Bishop of Leopoldina (Brazil) (1943-06-26 – 1960-07-23)
• Antônio Carlos Mesquita (1983-12-16 – 1996-06-26), died 2005; previously Titular Bishop of Tamada (1974-04-08 – 1977-03-06) as Coadjutor Bishop of Oliveira (Brazil) (1974-04-08 – 1977-03-06) and Apostolic Administrator sede plena of Oliveira (Brazil) (1974-04-08 – 1977-03-06), succeeding as Bishop of Oliveira (Brazil) (1977-03-06 – 1983-12-16)
• Waldemar Chaves de Araújo (1996-06-26 – retired 2010.05.26), previously Bishop of Teófilo Otoni (Brazil) (1989-11-18 – 1996-06-26)
• Célio de Oliveira Goulart,[3] Order of Friars Minor (O.F.M.) (2010-05-26 – death 2018-01-19), previously Bishop of Leopoldina (Brazil) (1998-06-24 – 2003-07-09), Bishop of Cachoeiro de Itapemirim (Brazil) (2003-07-09 – 2010-05-26)
• José Eudes Campos do Nascimento (2018-12-12 - present).

• Nhá Chica (1808-1895)
• José Maria Xavier (1819-1887)
• Antônio de Almeida Lustosa (1886-1974)
• Miguel Afonso de Andrade Leite (1912-1976)
• Lucas Moreira Neves (1925-2002)

• GCatholic.org, with Google map - data for all sections
• Catholic Hierarchy
• Diocese website (Portuguese)