Apostolic Vicariate of San José del Amazonas

Sancti Iosephi de Amazones

Apostolic vicariate · Latin Church · San José del Amazonas, Peru

Latin rite apostolic vicariate spanning roughly 150,000 square kilometers across three provinces of Peru's Loreto Department, erected as an apostolic prefecture on 13 July 1945 by the bull In catholici orbis and elevated to apostolic vicariate in 1955. Its seat is the Cathedral of St. Joseph the Worker in Indiana, Maynas province.

The see

Rank: Apostolic vicariate
Tradition: Latin Church
Erected: 3 July 1955
Latin: Sancti Iosephi de Amazones
Patron: São José
Annuario code: 001000452

The see in figures

Catholics: 151,000
Population: 210,000
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds: 71.9%
Priests: 14
Catholics per priest: 10,786
Extent: 150,000 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

Vicar Apostolic: Jose Javier Travieso Martin, C.M.F.

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

Cathedral of St. Joseph the Worker (San Jose Obrero), Indiana stands in San José del Amazonas, 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.

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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.