Diocese of Paracatu Dioecesis Paracatuensis
Location
Country	Brazil
Ecclesiastical province	Montes Claros
Statistics
Area	54,387 km2 (20,999 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2004) 300,000 234,000 (78.0%)
Information
Rite	Latin Rite
Established	1 March 1929 (94 years ago)
Cathedral	Catedral Santo Antônio
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Jorge Alves Bezerra, S.S.S.
Metropolitan Archbishop	João Justino de Medeiros Silva
Bishops emeritus	Leonardo de Miranda Pereira

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Paracatu (Latin: Dioecesis Paracatuensis) is a diocese located in the city of Paracatu in the ecclesiastical province of Montes Claros in Brazil.^[1]

History

• 1 March 1929: Established as Territorial Prelature of Paracatu from the Diocese of Montes Claros and Diocese of Uberaba
• 14 April 1962: Promoted as Diocese of Paracatu

Bishops

Ordinaries

• Prelates of Paracatu (Roman Rite)
  • Eliseu Van de Weijer, O. Carm. † (25 May 1940 - 14 April 1962) Resigned
• Bishops of Paracatu (Roman rite)
  • Raimundo Luí, O. Carm. † (11 June 1962 - 20 July 1977) Resigned
  • José Cardoso Sobrinho, O. Carm. (29 March 1979 - 2 April 1985) Appointed, Archbishop of Olinda e Recife, Pernambuco

  • 

    Leonardo de Miranda Pereira (6 May 1986 - 7 November 2012) Resigned
  • Jorge Alves Bezerra, S.S.S. (7 November 2012 – present)

Other priest of this diocese who became bishop

• 

  Benedito Gonçalves dos Santos, appointed Bishop of Presidente Prudente, São Paulo in 2008