Diocese of Guarda Dioecesis Aegitaniensis Diocese da Guarda | |
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| Location | |
| Country |  Portugal |
| Ecclesiastical province | Lisbon |
| Metropolitan | Patriarchate of Lisbon |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 6,758 km2 (2,609 sq mi) |
| Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2021) 259,880 249,250 (95.9%) |
| Parishes | 361 |
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| Denomination | Catholic Church |
| Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
| Rite | Roman Rite |
| Established | 6th Century |
| Cathedral | Guarda Cathedral |
| Patron saint | Assumption of Mary |
| Secular priests | 97 (Diocesan) 13 (Religious Orders) 21 Permanent Deacons |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Francis |
| Bishop | Manuel da Rocha Felício |
| Metropolitan Archbishop | Manuel III |
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The Diocese of Guarda (Latin: Dioecesis Aegitaniensis) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic church in central eastern Portugal, a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the Latin Patriarchate of Lisbon in southern Portugal.
The present episcopal seat is in Guarda Cathedral (Portuguese: Catedral de Nossa Senhora da Consolação) in the city of Guarda. The diocese also contains the Church of São Luís in Pinhel, once the cathedral of the former diocese of Pinhel, absorbed into the diocese of Guarda in 1881.[1]