Suffragan territorial prelature Itacoatiara, Brazil
Territorial Prelature of Itacoatiara
Itacoatiaren(sis)
Latin Church
Latin-rite territorial prelature in Amazonas state, northern Brazil. Erected 13 July 1963 on territory split from the Archdiocese of Manaus, of which it remains a suffragan. Its seat is the Catedral Prelaticia Nossa Senhora do Rosario in Itacoatiara.
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- Established
- 1963
- Catholics
- 137,400
- Priests
- 11
- Territory
- 83,012 km²
Parishes and churches
1 listed church in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
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The bishop
- Bishop
- Edmilson Tadeu Canavarros dos Santos, S.D.B.
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The cathedral
Catedral Prelaticia Nossa Senhora do Rosario stands in Itacoatiara, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
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History
A Latin Church territorial prelature in Amazonas state, inland northern Brazil, Itacoatiara (Latin: Praelatura Territorialis Itacoatiarensis) is suffragan to the metropolitan Archdiocese of Manaus. Its cathedral, the Catedral Prelatícia Nossa Senhora do Rosário, dedicated to Our Lady of the Rosary, stands in the episcopal see of Itacoatiara, Amazonas.