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Diocese of Humaitá

Humaitanen(sis)

Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Humaitá, Brazil

Diocese in Humaita, Amazonas, in the ecclesiastical province of Porto Velho. Erected as a territorial prelature on 26 June 1961 and promoted to a diocese on 16 October 1979. The current bishop is Dom Antonio Fontinele de Melo, appointed in 2020.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
26 June 1961
Latin
Humaitanen(sis)
Patron
Nossa Senhora da Conceição
Annuario code
001001628

The see in figures

Catholics
83,000
Population
100,000
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
83.0%
Priests
16
Catholics per priest
5,188
Extent
109,000 km²
Catholics per km²
0.8

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
Dom Antônio Fontinele de Melo

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 da Conceição stands in Humaitá, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.

The province of Porto Velho

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Porto Velho.

The sees of this province:

On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.

History

Within the ecclesiastical province of Porto Velho in Brazil, the Diocese of Humaitá (Latin: Dioecesis Humaitanensis) has its seat in the city of Humaitá.

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Sources

The see's own website · Wikipedia

Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.