Diocese of Humaitá
| Diocese of Humaitá | |
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Country | Brazil |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Porto Velho |
| Diocesan bishop | Antônio Fontinele de Melo (appointed) |
| Emeritus diocesan bishop | Franz Josef Meinrad Merkel CSSp |
| founding | 1961 |
| surface | 135,000 km² |
| Parishes | 8 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Residents | 121,000 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Catholics | 85,700 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| proportion of | 70.8% |
| Diocesan priest | 5 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Religious priest | 12 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 5,041 |
| Permanent deacons | 6 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Friars | 13 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Religious sisters | 26 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | Portuguese |
| cathedral | Catedral Nossa Senhora da Conceição |
| Website | http://www.diocesedehumaita.org.br/ |
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Humaitá ( lat. : Dioecesis Humaitanensis ) is in Brazil located Roman Catholic diocese based in Humaitá in the state of Amazonas .
history
The Diocese of Humaitá was on June 26, 1961 by Pope John XXIII. established with the Apostolic Constitution Ecclesiae universae from cessions of territory of the Archdiocese of Manaus and the territorial prelature Porto Velho as the territorial prelature Humaitá . The territorial prelature was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Manaus as a suffragan . On October 16, 1979, the territorial prelature Humaitá was raised to the diocese by Pope John Paul II with the Apostolic Constitution Cum praelaturae . The Diocese of Humaitá was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Porto Velho as a suffragan on October 4, 1982.
Ordinaries
Prelates of Humaitá
- Josef Domitrovitsch SDB , 1961–1962
- Miguel d'Aversa SDB, 1962-1979
Bishops of Humaitá
- Miguel d'Aversa SDB, 1979-1991
- José Jovêncio Balestieri SDB, 1991–1998, then Coadjutor Bishop of Rio do Sul
- Franz Josef Meinrad Merkel CSSp , 2000–2020
- Antônio Fontinele de Melo , since 2020
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ioannes Paulus II: Const. Apost. Cum praelaturae , AAS 71 (1979), n.16, pp. 1054f.