Diocese of Macapá
| Diocese of Macapá | |
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Country | Brazil |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Belém do Pará |
| Diocesan bishop | Pedro José Conti |
| Vicar General | Paolo Lepre |
| founding | 1949 |
| surface | 142,828 km² |
| Parishes | 27 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Residents | 766,679 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Catholics | 481,000 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| proportion of | 62.7% |
| Diocesan priest | 15 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Religious priest | 39 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 8,907 |
| Permanent deacons | 24 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Friars | 39 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Religious sisters | 44 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | Portuguese |
| cathedral | São José Cathedral |
| Website | http://www.diocesedemacapa.com.br/ |
The Diocese of Macapá ( Latin Dioecesis Macapensis , Portuguese Diocese de Macapá ) is in Brazil located Roman Catholic diocese based in Macapa in the state of Amapá .
history
The diocese of Macapá was on February 1, 1949 by Pope Pius XII. established with the papal bull Unius Apostolicae Sedis from cessions of territory of the territorial prelature Santarém as the territorial prelature Macapá . On October 30, 1980, the territorial prelature Macapá was raised to the diocese. The diocese of Macapá is subordinate to the Archdiocese of Belém do Pará as a suffragan .
Ordinaries
Prelates of Macapá
- Aristide Pirovano PIME , 1955-1965
- Giuseppe Maritano PIME, 1965-1980
Bishops of Macapá
- Giuseppe Maritano PIME, 1980-1983
- Luiz Soares Vieira , 1984–1991, then Archbishop of Manaus
- Giovanni Risatti PIME, 1993-2003
- Pedro José Conti , since 2004