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Diocese of Lábrea

Labrean(us)

Suffragan territorial prelature · Latin Church · Lábrea, Brazil

Labrea is a territorial prelature (not a full diocese) of the Latin Rite in Amazonas, Brazil, erected in 1925 and entrusted to the Order of Augustinian Recollects. It is suffragan to the Archdiocese of Porto Velho and led by a prelate bishop.

The see

Rank
Suffragan territorial prelature
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
1 May 1925
Latin
Labrean(us)
Patron
Our Lady of Nazareth (Nossa Senhora de Nazare)
Annuario code
001000278

The see in figures

Catholics
61,500
Population
78,832
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
78.0%
Priests
10
Catholics per priest
6,150
Extent
230,240 km²
Catholics per km²
0.3

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
Santiago Sanchez Sebastian, O.A.R.

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 de Nazare stands in Lábrea, 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

Lábrea is home to a territorial prelature rather than a full diocese (Latin: Praelatura Territorialis Labreana), attached to the ecclesiastical province of Porto Velho in Brazil.

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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.