Territorial Prelature of Itacoatiara Praelatura Territorialis Itacoatiarensis | |
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Location | |
Country | Brazil |
Ecclesiastical province | Manaus |
Statistics | |
Area | 83,012 km2 (32,051 sq mi) |
Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2004) 155,254 126,726 (81.6%) |
Information | |
Denomination | Catholic Church |
Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
Rite | Roman Rite |
Established | 13 July 1963 (61 years ago) |
Cathedral | Catedral Prelatícia Nossa Senhora do Rosário |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Prelate | José Ionilton Lisboa de Oliveira, S.D.V. |
Metropolitan Archbishop | Sérgio Eduardo Castriani, C.S.Sp. |
The Territorial Prelature of Itacoatiara (Latin: Praelatura Territorialis Itacoatiarensis) is a Latin Church territorial prelature of the Catholic Church in Amazonas state, inland northern Brazil. It is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Manaus.
Its cathedral is the Catedral Prelatícia Nossa Senhora do Rosário, dedicated to Our Lady of the Rosary, in the episcopal see of Itacoatiara, Amazonas.