Diocese of Lábrea
Labrean(us)
Suffragan territorial prelature · Latin Church · Lábrea, Brazil
Labrea is a territorial prelature (not a full diocese) of the Latin Rite in Amazonas, Brazil, erected in 1925 and entrusted to the Order of Augustinian Recollects. It is suffragan to the Archdiocese of Porto Velho and led by a prelate bishop.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan territorial prelature
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 1 May 1925
- Latin
- Labrean(us)
- Patron
- Our Lady of Nazareth (Nossa Senhora de Nazare)
- Annuario code
- 001000278
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 61,500
- Population
- 78,832
- Catholic share
- 78.0%
- Priests
- 10
- Catholics per priest
- 6,150
- Extent
- 230,240 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.3
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
- Santiago Sanchez Sebastian, O.A.R.
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 de Nazare stands in Lábrea, 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 HumaitáHumaitá
- Diocese of Ji-ParanáJi-Paraná
- Archdiocese of Porto VelhoPorto Velho
- Diocese of Rio BrancoRio Branco
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Lábrea is home to a territorial prelature rather than a full diocese (Latin: Praelatura Territorialis Labreana), attached to the ecclesiastical province of Porto Velho in Brazil.
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].