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Suffragan diocese Alto Solimões, Brazil

Diocese of Alto Solimões

Solimões Superioris

The Diocese of Alto Solimões is a Latin Church diocese based in Tabatinga, Amazonas, Brazil, suffragan to the Archdiocese of Manaus. It originated as an apostolic prefecture in 1910 and was elevated to a diocese on August 14, 1991.

On the map

Esri
The address the register holds for Catedral Nossa Senhora do Perpétuo Socorro, in Alto Solimões, Brazil.

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Established
1991
Catholics
125,472
Priests
20
Territory
130,240 km²

Parishes and churches

8 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.

This is our recorded coverage, not an official diocesan parish count. Confirm service times with the parish before travelling.

The bishop

Bishop
Adolfo Zon Pereira, S.X.

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The cathedral

Catedral Nossa Senhora do Perpétuo Socorro stands in Alto Solimões, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

Its co-cathedral is São Paulo Apóstolo, São Paulo de Olivença.

On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.

History

The Diocese of Alto Solimões (Latin: Dioecesis Solimões Superioris) has its seat in the city of Tabatinga, within Brazil's ecclesiastical province of Manaus.