PORTO VECCHIO, PRELATURE NULLIUS of - City and prelature nullius in the State of Amazonas in Brazil. It has an area of 270,000 sq km with a population of 300,000 inhabitants, of whom 30,000 are Catholics. It has 2 parishes served by 11 regular priests, 2 male religious communities and 4 female ones (Ann. Pont., 1952, p. 642).

The prelature was created by Pope Pius XI with the apostolic constitution Inter nostri of 1 May 1925 by dismemberment of the diocese of Amazonas and of S. Luigi de Caceres, raising the existing church in P. V. to prelatical dignity. The prelature is a suffragan of Belem do Pará; the first apostolic administrator was the Salesian Msgr. P. Massa (1925-46). It comprises the region of the Madeira River beginning at Tres Casas below Humaitá and penetrating into the State of Matto Grosso as far as the boundaries of the city of Guajarà Mirim. It has part of the territory of the State of Amazonas, part of that of Matto Grosso and part of that of the territory of Guaporé.

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BIBL.: AAS, 17 (1925), pp. 564-66; G. B. Lehmann, O Brasil católico 1947, Juiz de Fora 1947, p. 480.

Virginio Battezzati

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