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Suffragan territorial prelature Lábrea, Brazil

Diocese of Lábrea

Labrean(us)

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.

On the map

Esri
The address the register holds for Catedral Nossa Senhora de Nazare, in Lábrea, Brazil.

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Established
1925
Catholics
61,500
Priests
10
Territory
230,240 km²

Parishes and churches

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

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The bishop

Bishop
Santiago Sanchez Sebastian, O.A.R.

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The cathedral

Catedral Nossa Senhora de Nazare stands in Lábrea, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

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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.