Diocese of Parintins
Parintinen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Parintins, Brazil
The Diocese of Parintins is a Latin Rite diocese in Amazonas, Brazil, originating as a territorial prelature in 1955 and elevated to a diocese in 1980. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Manaus and is led by Bishop Jose Albuquerque de Araujo, installed in 2023.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 12 July 1955
- Latin
- Parintinen(sis)
- Patron
- Our Lady of Mount Carmel
- Annuario code
- 001002545
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 207,000
- Population
- 195,600
- Priests
- 21
- Catholics per priest
- 9,857
- Extent
- 75,654 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 2.7
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
- Jose Albuquerque de Araujo
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 de Nossa Senhora do Carmo stands in Parintins, 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 Manaus
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Manaus.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of Alto SolimõesAlto Solimões
- Diocese of BorbaBorba
- Diocese of CoariCoari
- Archdiocese of ManausManaus
- Diocese of RoraimaRoraima
- Diocese of São Gabriel da CachoeiraSão Gabriel da Cachoeira
- Territorial Prelature of ItacoatiaraItacoatiara
- Territorial Prelature of TeféTefé
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Belonging to the ecclesiastical province of Manaus, this Brazilian diocese (Latin: Dioecesis Parintinensis) has its seat in the city of Parintins.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Avenida Amazonas 2139, 69151-000 Parintins, AM, Brasil
- Telephone
- [092]3533-5555; fax 3533-3459
- [email protected]
This see keeps no website of its own, so its chancery is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.
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 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
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].