AMAZONAS (MANÁOS), DIOCESE OF. - In the state of Amazonas (Brazil), which is the largest of the Brazilian states (1,826,000 sq. km.), but very sparsely populated (fewer than 500,000 inhabitants), being for the most part occupied by equatorial forest. The inhabited centers are found almost exclusively on the rivers, and the capital Manáos, on the Amazon River, contains about a fifth of the population of the entire state, composed for about half of Indians, partly semi-wild. The diocese, erected on 27 April 1892, is a suffragan of Belem do Pará (since 1906); residence at Manáos. The Cathedral is dedicated to the Immaculate Conception. In 1907 the region crossed by the Rio Branco was separated and erected into a prefecture. On 1 May 1925, with three parishes of the diocese of A., the millius prelature of Labrea was erected; on the same day the parish of Hu-mayrá and the city of Porto Velho were dismembered to form the millius prelature of Porto Velho.

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BIBL.: s. v. in The Cath. Enc., I (1907), p. 381; U. Rouris, Amazonas, in DHG, IX, col. 1014; AAS, 17 (1925), pp. 380, 361-66.

Giovanni Meseguer

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Amazonas (Manáos), Diocese of

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