Roman Catholic Diocese of Montenegro

Diocese of Montenegro

*Dioecesis Nigromontana*
Diocese of Montenegro; Dioecesis Nigromontana
	Catedral de São João Batista in 2018
Location
Country	Brazil
Ecclesiastical province	Porto Alegre
Statistics
Area	4,395 km2 (1,697 sq mi)
Population; - Total; - Catholics	(as of 2010); 340,000; 283,119 (83.3%)
Information
Rite	Latin Rite
Established	2 July 2008 (16 years ago)
Cathedral	Catedral de São João Batista
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Carlos Rômulo Gonçalves e Silva
Metropolitan Archbishop	Jaime Spengler
Bishops emeritus	Paulo Antônio de Conto
Map
	; Jurisdiction of the diocese. Metropolitan archdiocese in pink.
Website
	www.diocesemontenegro.com.br

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Montenegro (Latin: Dioecesis Nigromontana) is a suffragan Latin diocese in the ecclesiastical province of its mother see, the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Porto Alegre (in the state capital) in Rio Grande do Sul state, southernmost Brazil.

Its cathedral episcopal see is Catedral de São João Batista, dedicated to John the Baptist in the city of Montenegro, Brazil.

Statistics

As per 2014, it pastorally served 285,590 Catholics (76.0% of 375,589 total) on 4,385 km² in 30 parishes with 49 priests (39 diocesan, 10 religious), 4 deacons, 148 lay religious (24 brothers, 124 sisters) and 18 seminarians.

History

The diocese was erected by Pope Benedict XVI on 2 July 2008, on territory split off from its Metropolitan see, the Archdiocese of Porto Alegre.^[1]^[2]

Bishops

Episcopal ordinaries

Paulo Antônio de Conto (born Brazil) (2 July 2008 - 18 October 2017), also Apostolic Administrator of Passo Fundo (Brazil) (2015.07.15 – 2015.12.02); previously Bishop of São Luíz de Caceres (Brazil) (1991.07.24 – 1998.05.27), Bishop of Criciúma (Brazil) (1998.05.27 – 2008.07.02)
Carlos Rômulo Gonçalves e Silva (18 October 2017 - ...); previously Coadjutor Bishop (2017.03.22 – 2017.10.18), neither previous prelature nor titular see.