Diocese of São Gabriel da Cachoeira
Cachoëiren(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Brazil
Latin-rite diocese on the Rio Negro in Amazonas state, Brazil, with the highest percentage of indigenous population of any Brazilian diocese. Established 1 May 1925 as the Territorial Prelature of Rio Negro, elevated to a diocese 30 October 1980 and renamed Sao Gabriel da Cachoeira in 1981; it is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Manaus. Its cathedral is the Catedral Sao Gabriel.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 1925
- Latin
- Cachoëiren(sis)
- Patron
- san Gabriel
- Annuario code
- 001002988
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 56,000
- Population
- 62,000
- Catholic share
- 90.3%
- Priests
- 25
- Catholics per priest
- 2,240
- Extent
- 286,866 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.2
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
- Raimundo Vanthuy Neto
- Born
- 10 May 1973
- Birthplace
- Pau dos Ferros
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 Sao Gabriel stands in São Gabriel da Cachoeira, 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 Manaus.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of Alto SolimõesAlto Solimões
- Diocese of BorbaBorba
- Diocese of CoariCoari
- Archdiocese of ManausManaus
- Diocese of ParintinsParintins
- Diocese of RoraimaRoraima
- Territorial Prelature of ItacoatiaraItacoatiara
- Territorial Prelature of TeféTefé
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Seated in the city of São Gabriel da Cachoeira, this Brazilian diocese (Latin: Dioecesis Cachoëirensis) belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Manaus. Its bishop is Mgr Edson Taschetto Damian, named on March 4th, 2009 and blessed on May 24th, 2009.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Av. 7 de Setembro 205, 69750-000 São Gabriel da Cachoeira, AM, Brasil
- Telephone
- [097]3471-1367; fax 3471-1287
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].