Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. VII, 1951 Ecclesiastical hierarchy Prelatures nullius

Macapá

MACAPÀ

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MACAPÁ. - A "nullius" prelature in the federal territory of Amapà (Brazil), suffragan of Belem do Pará.

It has an area of 143,716 sq km with 40,000 inhabitants, of whom 38,000 are Catholics. It has 2 parishes with 30 churches and 14 priests (Ann. Pont. 1951, p. 560).

The prelature was erected by Pope Pius XII with the apostolic constitution Unius Apostolicae Sedis of 1 February 1949, by dismemberment from the "nullius" prelature of Santarem of the federal territory of Amapà, constituting the city of M. as the seat of the new prelature and elevating the local church of St. Joseph to a prelatic church.

Bibliography

BIBL.: AAS, 41 (1949), pp. 402-404.

Virgilio Battezzati

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By Virginio Battezzati

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VII (1951), col. 1739.

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Battezzati, Virginio. “Macapà.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VII, col. 1739. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951. https://azioneromana.com/article/macapa.

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Battezzati, Virginio. “Macapà.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VII, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951, col. 1739. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/macapa.

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@incollection{ec7_macapa,
  author    = {Battezzati, Virginio},
  title     = {Macapà},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {VII},
  pages     = {1739},
  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/macapa}
}

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