PALMAS. - City and nullius prelature in the State of Paraná in Brazil.

It has an area of 32,729 sq km, with a population of 137,630 inhabitants, of whom 126,900 are Catholics. It has 11 parishes, served by 3 diocesan priests and 20 regulars; it has 6 male religious communities and 9 female ones (Ann. Pont., 1951, p. 632).

The prelature was created by Pope Pius XII with the apostolic constitution Ad maius Christifidelium of 9 Dec. 1933, by dismemberment of the dioceses of Lajes and Ponta Grossa, assigning to the new prelature the territories of P., Clevelandia and Chapeco, with residence in the city of P., whose church dedicated to the Most Holy Savior was elevated to prelatial dignity. The boundaries of the prelature are: to the north the Iguassú River, to the west the Argentine Republic, to the east the civil boundaries that separate P. and Chapeco from the neighboring municipalities, and to the south the Uruguay River as far as the confluence of the Irany.

The prelature is a suffragan of Curityba.

Bibliography2 works

BIBL.: AAS, 27 (1935), pp. 33-35; G. B. Lehmann, O Brasil Católico 1947, Juiz de Fora 1947, pp. 476-77.

Virginio Battezzati

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