Roman Catholic Diocese of Guarda, Portugal


The Roman Catholic Diocese of Guarda is a diocese located in central eastern Portugal, a suffragan in the Ecclesiastical province of the Latin Patriarchate of Lisbon in southern Portugal.
Its cathedral episcopal see is Catedral de Nossa Senhora da Consolação, in the city of Guarda. It also has the former Cathedral: Igreja de São Luís, in Pinhel, an absorbed see.

Statistics

As per 2014, it pastorally served 253,300 Catholics on 6,759 km² in 361 parishes and 3 missions with 140 priests, 17 deacons, 133 lay religious and 5 seminarians.

History

;Suffragan Bishops of Guarda