Also known as:
Territorial Prelature of Guamá;
Italian: Gurupy;
Portuguese: Prelatura de Guamá
GUAMÁ. - Prelature nullius in the State of Pará in Brazil.
It has an area of 63,000 sq km with 150,000 inhabitants, of whom 127,000 are Catholics; it has 7 parishes, 4 male religious communities and 2 female ones (1949).
The prelature was created on 14 April 1928 under the name of Gurupy and with its residence in the city of Ourem; by decree of the Sacred Consistorial Congregation of 3 February 1934, 3 more parishes were added to the prelature by dismemberment of the archdiocese of Belem do Pará, the seat of the prelature was transferred to the city of Bragança, raising the church of Maria S.ma del Rosario to prelatical dignity; and the prelature itself was given the name of G.
Josi, Enrico. “Guamà.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, col. 1198. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951. https://azioneromana.com/article/guama.
MLA
Josi, Enrico. “Guamà.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951, col. 1198. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/guama.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec6_guama,
author = {Josi, Enrico},
title = {Guamà},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {VI},
pages = {1198},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1951},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/guama}
}
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