Diocese of Humaitá
Humaitanen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Humaitá, Brazil
Diocese in Humaita, Amazonas, in the ecclesiastical province of Porto Velho. Erected as a territorial prelature on 26 June 1961 and promoted to a diocese on 16 October 1979. The current bishop is Dom Antonio Fontinele de Melo, appointed in 2020.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 26 June 1961
- Latin
- Humaitanen(sis)
- Patron
- Nossa Senhora da Conceição
- Annuario code
- 001001628
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 83,000
- Population
- 100,000
- Catholic share
- 83.0%
- Priests
- 16
- Catholics per priest
- 5,188
- Extent
- 109,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.8
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 Antônio Fontinele de Melo
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 Nossa Senhora da Conceição stands in Humaitá, 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 Porto Velho
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Porto Velho.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of Cruzeiro do SulCruzeiro do Sul
- Diocese of Guajará-MirimGuajará-Mirim
- Diocese of Ji-ParanáJi-Paraná
- Diocese of LábreaLábrea
- Archdiocese of Porto VelhoPorto Velho
- Diocese of Rio BrancoRio Branco
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Within the ecclesiastical province of Porto Velho in Brazil, the Diocese of Humaitá (Latin: Dioecesis Humaitanensis) has its seat in the city of Humaitá.
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].