Roman Catholic Diocese of São João del Rei
The Roman Catholic Diocese of São João del Rei is a suffragan Latin rite diocese in the Ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan of Juiz de Fora in Minas Gerais state, Brazil.
Its cathedral episcopal see is Catedral Basílica Nossa Sehora do Pilar, a Minor Basilica, dedicated to Our Lady of the Pillar, in the city of São João del-Rei São João del Rei.History
As per 2015, it pastorally served 506,000 Catholics on 9,503 km² in 40 parishes with 72 priests, 2 deacons, 109 lay religious and 9 seminarians.Episcopal Ordinaries
;Suffragan Bishops of São João del-Rei
sede plena'' of Oliveira , succeeding as Bishop of Oliveira Waldemar Chaves de Araújo, previously Bishop of Teófilo Otoni Célio de Oliveira Goulart, Order of Friars Minor , previously Bishop of Leopoldina , Bishop of Cachoeiro de Itapemirim José Eudes Campos do Nascimento.
