It has an area of 120,000 sq. km. with 120,000 Catholics; it has 4 parishes, 6 regular priests (1949).
The prelature was created by Pope Pius XII with the apostolic constitution Sollicitudo of 21 June 1929 by separating it from the diocese of Goiás, elevating the church of the Holy Spirit to the dignity of a prelature. Suffragan of Goiás.
BIBL.: AAS, 23 (1931) pp. 323-25. Enrico Josi