Diocese of Cametá
Cametanen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Cametá, Brazil
The Diocese of Cametá is a Latin Church diocese in the state of Pará, Brazil. It was established as a territorial prelature on 29 November 1952 and elevated to a diocese on 6 February 2013, and is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Belém do Pará, led by Bishop Ivanildo Oliveira Almeida since 2023.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 2013
- Latin
- Cametanen(sis)
- Patron
- Saint John the Baptist
- Annuario code
- 001001031
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 431,000
- Population
- 559,000
- Catholic share
- 77.1%
- Priests
- 31
- Catholics per priest
- 13,903
- Extent
- 47,758 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 9.0
of the people living within its bounds
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Dom Ivanildo Oliveira Almeida
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
Catedral São João Batista stands in Cametá, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
The province of Belém do Pará
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Belém do Pará.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of AbaetetubaAbaetetuba
- Archdiocese of Belém do ParáBelém do Pará
- Diocese of Bragança do ParáBragança do Pará
- Diocese of CastanhalCastanhal
- Diocese of MacapáMacapá
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
In Brazil's Pará state, the Latin Church maintains the Diocese of Cametá (Latin: Cametanensis), a suffragan of the metropolitan Archbishop of Belém do Pará. The episcopal see is Cametá itself, where the cathedral, Catedral São João Batista, honors Saint John the Baptist.
What is kept by invitation
The record above is published because it is public: what this see is, when it was erected, who holds its chair, and where it stands among its neighbours.
The working record is not. The chancery's address, telephone and email, the clergy of the see, and the hours of Mass, confession and adoration in the parishes within it are kept for members, and a person reads every request.
Sources
The see's own website · Wikipedia
This record is compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. On the method, see the keeping of the record. Whoever finds an error is asked, in charity, to write: [email protected].