GOIÁS, Archdiocese of. - Archdiocese and city, capital of the state of the same name in the center of the Brazilian highlands. It has an area of 227,230 sq km with a population of 479,661, of whom 455,677 are Catholics, distributed in 35 parishes with 19 diocesan priests and 60 regulars, 1 seminary, 11 male religious communities and 14 female ones (1949).

Erected as a prelature on 6 Dec. 1745, it was elevated to a diocese by Leo XII on 15 July 1826, as a suffragan first of Bahia, then of Mariana. Pope Pius XI, with the apostolic constitution Quæ in factiorem dated 18 Nov. 1932, erected G. as a metropolitan see, by detaching it from the ecclesiastical province of Mariana, assigning to it as suffragans the diocese of Porto Nacional and the nullius prelatures of Bananal, Jataí and S. Giuseppe di Alto Tocantins. The population is devoted especially to cattle raising and agriculture.

The Cathedral is dedicated to St. Anne; other churches are those of the Buona Morte, of the Carmine, of the Rosary, of St. Francis; the asylum of St. Vincent de Paul is sumptuous.

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BIBL.: T. Hunt, s. v. in Cath. Enc., VI, p. 687; anon. Guyaz, in Enc. Eur.-Am., XXVI, p. 837; AAS, 25 (1933), pp. 145-47.

Enrico Josi

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