Diocese of São Gabriel da Cachoeira

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Diocese of São Gabriel da Cachoeira
Basic data
Country Brazil
Metropolitan bishopric Archdiocese of Manaus
Diocesan bishop Edson Taschetto Damian
Emeritus diocesan bishop Walter Ivan de Azevedo SDB
founding 1925
surface 294,598 km²
Parishes 10 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Residents 100,360 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Catholics 98,540 (2017 / AP 2018 )
proportion of 98.2%
Diocesan priest 7 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Religious priest 13 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Catholics per priest 4,927
Friars 17 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Religious sisters 36 (2017 / AP 2018 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language Portuguese
cathedral São Gabriel Cathedral

The Diocese of São Gabriel da Cachoeira ( Latin Dioecesis Cachoëirensis , Portuguese Diocese de São Gabriel da Cachoeira ) is in Brazil located Roman Catholic diocese , based in São Gabriel da Cachoeira in the state of Amazonas .

history

São Gabriel Cathedral

Pope Pius X founded the Apostolic Prefecture of Rio Negro on October 19, 1910. In 1914 the Apostolic Prefecture was entrusted to the Salesians of Don Bosco.

With the Apostolic Constitution Christianae religionis it was raised on May 1, 1925 to the territorial prelature , which was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Belém do Pará as a suffragan . On February 16, 1952, it became part of the ecclesiastical province of the Archdiocese of Manaus . She was elevated to a diocese on August 14, 1991. It took its current name on October 21, 1981.

Ordinaries

Prelates of Rio Negro

Bishop of Rio Negro

  • Michele Alagna Fodera SDS (October 30, 1980 - October 21, 1981)

Bishops of São Gabriel da Cachoeira

statistics

year population priest Permanent deacons Religious Parishes
Catholics Residents % Total number Diocesan priest Religious priest Catholics per priest Friars Religious sisters
1965 25,000 65,000 38.5 25th 25th 1,000 26th 32 10
1970 ? 46,000 ? 20th 1 19th ? 34 52
1976 27,000 35,000 77.1 23 23 1,173 34 45 9
1980 21,600 28,900 74.7 24 24 900 33 48 9
1990 39,900 45,000 88.7 16 1 15th 2,493 22nd 43 9
2000 45,000 55,000 81.8 20th 6th 14th 2,250 23 41 9
2004 56,000 62,000 90.3 19th 10 9 2,947 16 41 10
2010 92,900 94,600 98.2 20th 10 10 4,645 20th 44 10
2017 98,540 100,360 98.2 20th 7th 13 4,927 17th 36 10

See also

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