JATAI. – Prelatura nullius and city in the State of Goiaz, Brazil.
It has an area of 120,000 sq km and 120,000 Catholics; it has 4 parishes and 6 religious priests (1949).
The prelature was created by Pope Pius XII by the apostolic constitution Sollicitudo of 21 June 1920, through the division of the Diocese of Goiaz, elevating the Church of the Holy Spirit to prelatic dignity. Suffragan of Goiaz.
BIBL.: AAS, 23 (1931), pp. 323–25. Enrico Josi