Diocese of Alto Solimões
| Diocese of Alto Solimões | |
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Country | Brazil |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Manaus |
| Diocesan bishop | Adolfo Zon Pereira SX |
| Emeritus diocesan bishop | Evangelista Alcimar Caldas Magalhães OFMCap |
| founding | 1910 |
| surface | 143,970 km² |
| Parishes | 8 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| Residents | 188,600 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| Catholics | 127,500 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| proportion of | 67.6% |
| Diocesan priest | 8 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| Religious priest | 11 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 6.711 |
| Friars | 18 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| Religious sisters | 27 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | Portuguese |
| cathedral | Catedral Santos Anjos da Guarda |
| Co-cathedral | São Paulo Apóstolo |
The Diocese of Alto Solimões ( Latin Dioecesis Solimões Superioris , Portuguese Diocese de Alto Solimões ) is a in Brazil located Roman Catholic diocese based in Tabatinga in the state of Amazonas .
history
Pope Pius X. founded the Apostolic Prefecture Alto Solimões with the Apostolic Constitution Laeti animo on May 23, 1910 from cession of territory by the diocese of Amazonas . It was elevated to a territorial prelature on August 11, 1950 .
With the bull Constat praelaturam it was elevated to a diocese on August 14, 1991, which was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Manaus as a suffragan .
Ordinaries
Apostolic Prefect of Alto Solimões
- Evangelista Galea OFMCap (September 6, 1910 - January 31, 1938)
- Tomaz M. de Marcellano OFMCap (November 18, 1938-1945)
- Wesceslau Nazareno Ponte de Spoleto OFMCap (November 8, 1946 - August 11, 1950)
Prelates of Alto Solimões
- Wesceslau Nazareno Ponte de Spoleto OFMCap (August 11, 1950 - June 28, 1952)
- Cesário Alexandre Minali OFMCap (March 1, 1955 - April 9, 1958, then Prelate of Carolina )
- Adalberto Domingos Marzi OFMCap (February 4, 1961 - September 12, 1990)
- Evangelista Alcimar Caldas Magalhães OFMCap (September 12, 1990 - August 14, 1991)
Bishops of Alto Solimões
- Evangelista Alcimar Caldas Magalhães OFMCap (August 14, 1991 - May 20, 2015)
- Adolfo Zon Pereira SX (since May 20, 2015)
statistics
| year | population | priest | Permanent deacons | Religious | Parishes | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Catholics | Residents | % | Total number | Diocesan priest | Religious priest | Catholics per priest | Friars | Religious sisters | |||
| 1950 | 22,907 | 28,000 | 81.8 | 16 | 16 | 1,431 | 16 | 11 | 3 | ||
| 1963 | 38,000 | 46,000 | 82.6 | 13 | 13 | 2,923 | 12 | 5 | |||
| 1976 | 46,401 | 49,521 | 93.7 | 12 | 12 | 3,866 | 14th | 8th | 8th | ||
| 1980 | 45,800 | 55,000 | 83.3 | 11 | 1 | 10 | 4.163 | 11 | 8th | 8th | |
| 1990 | 70,000 | 105,000 | 66.7 | 11 | 3 | 8th | 6.363 | 15th | 22nd | 8th | |
| 1999 | 97,000 | 145,000 | 66.9 | 14th | 5 | 9 | 6,928 | 17th | 15th | 8th | |
| 2000 | 99,000 | 160,000 | 61.9 | 14th | 5 | 9 | 7,071 | 19th | 15th | 8th | |
| 2001 | 99,000 | 163,000 | 60.7 | 14th | 5 | 9 | 7,071 | 19th | 15th | 8th | |
| 2002 | 99,000 | 165,000 | 60.0 | 14th | 5 | 9 | 7,071 | 19th | 15th | 8th | |
| 2003 | 98,000 | 169,000 | 58.0 | 13 | 5 | 8th | 7,538 | 1 | 20th | 14th | 8th |
| 2004 | 98,000 | 169,000 | 58.0 | 13 | 5 | 8th | 7,538 | 2 | 20th | 14th | 8th |
| 2006 | 99,300 | 130,240 | 76.2 | 13 | 6th | 7th | 7,638 | 19th | 14th | 8th | |
| 2012 | 124,900 | 184,700 | 67.6 | 14th | 4th | 10 | 8,921 | 19th | 14th | 8th | |