Diocese of Alto Solimões
Solimões Superioris
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Alto Solimões, Brazil
The Diocese of Alto Solimões is a Latin Church diocese based in Tabatinga, Amazonas, Brazil, suffragan to the Archdiocese of Manaus. It originated as an apostolic prefecture in 1910 and was elevated to a diocese on August 14, 1991.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 1991
- Latin
- Solimões Superioris
- Patron
- Our Lady of Perpetual Help
- Annuario code
- 001000663
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 125,472
- Population
- 169,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 74.2%
- Priests
- 20
- Catholics per priest
- 6,274
- Extent
- 130,240 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 1.0
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
- Adolfo Zon Pereira, S.X.
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 Nossa Senhora do Perpétuo Socorro stands in Alto Solimões, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
Its co-cathedral is São Paulo Apóstolo, São Paulo de Olivença.
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 Archdiocese of Manaus.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of BorbaBorba
- Diocese of CoariCoari
- Archdiocese of ManausManaus
- Diocese of ParintinsParintins
- Diocese of RoraimaRoraima
- Diocese of São Gabriel da CachoeiraSão Gabriel da Cachoeira
- Territorial Prelature of ItacoatiaraItacoatiara
- Territorial Prelature of TeféTefé
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
The Diocese of Alto Solimões (Latin: Dioecesis Solimões Superioris) has its seat in the city of Tabatinga, within Brazil's ecclesiastical province of Manaus.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Rua Pedro Teixeira 540, Centro, 69640-000 Tabatinga, AM, Brasil
- Telephone
- [097]3412-2514; fax 3412-3320
This see keeps no website of its own, so the address of its diocesan offices 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.
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Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.