Territorial Prelature of Itacoatiara, Brazil

Continent: South America

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Territorial Prelature

Name: Itacoatiara / Itacoatiaren(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Manaus

Depends on: Dicastery for Bishops

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Celebrations

Patron Saint: Nossa Senhora do Rosário (October 7)

Liturgical Calendar (National) 📅

History

1963.07.13: Established as Territorial Prelature of Itacoatiara / Itacoatiaren(sis) (Latin) (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Manaus and became suffragan of Manaus)

Contact Info

Address: Cúria Prelatícia, C.P. 25, Rua Mons. Joaquim Pereira 144, 69100-000 Itacoatiara, AM, Brazil

Phone: (092)3521-1333

Present Prelates

Bishop-Prelate (2024.08.22 – ...):

Bishop Edmilson Tadeu Canavarros dos Santos, S.D.B. (57)

Ordinaries

Prelates of Itacoatiara (Roman Rite)

Bishop Edmilson Tadeu Canavarros dos Santos, S.D.B. (57)
(2024.08.22 – ...)

Bishop-Prelate of Itacoatiara (Brazil)

Recapitulare omnia in Christo

Born:	1967.12.03 (Corumbá, MS, Brazil)
Ordained Priest:	1996.12.07
Consecrated Bishop:	2016.12.12

Titular Bishop of Feradi minus (2016.10.12 – 2024.08.22)

Auxiliary Bishop of Manaus (Brazil) (2016.10.12 – 2024.08.22)

Apostolic Administrator of Itacoatiara (Brazil) (2023.11.29 – 2024.08.22)

Bishop-Prelate of Itacoatiara (Brazil) (2024.08.22 – ...)

Bishop Edmilson Tadeu Canavarros dos Santos, S.D.B. (57)
(Apostolic Administrator 2023.11.29 – 2024.08.22)

Bishop José Ionilton Lisboa de Oliveira, S.D.V. (62)
(2017.04.19 – 2023.11.03)

Bishop-Prelate of Marajó (Brazil)

Estou em meio a vós como aquele que serve

Born:	1962.03.09 (Araci, BA, Brazil)
Ordained Priest:	1992.01.19
Consecrated Bishop:	2017.07.16

Bishop-Prelate of Itacoatiara (Brazil) (2017.04.19 – 2023.11.03)

Bishop-Prelate of Marajó (Brazil) (2023.11.03 – ...)

Bishop Carillo Gritti, I.M.C.
(2000.01.05 – 2016.06.09)

Memoria Jesu Dulcis

Born:	1942.05.12 (Italy)
Ordained Priest:	1967.06.24
Consecrated Bishop:	2000.03.19
Died:	2016.06.09 († 74)

Bishop-Prelate of Itacoatiara (Brazil) (2000.01.05 – 2016.06.09)

Bishop Jorge Eduardo Marskell, S.F.M.
(1978.05.05 – 1998.07.02)

Born:	1935.11.08 (Hamilton, ON, Canada)
Ordained Priest:	1960.08.21
Consecrated Bishop:	1978.07.30
Died:	1998.07.02 († 62)

Apostolic Administrator of Itacoatiara (Brazil) (1975 – 1978.05.05)

Bishop-Prelate of Itacoatiara (Brazil) (1978.05.05 – 1998.07.02)

Fr. Jorge Eduardo Marskell, S.F.M. (later Bishop)
(Apostolic Administrator 1975 – 1978.05.05)

Archbishop João de Souza Lima
(Apostolic Administrator 1972 – 1975)

Bishop Francis Paul McHugh, S.F.M.
(1965.07.20 – 1972.07.15)

Born:	1924.08.21 (Woodslee, ON, Canada)
Ordained Priest:	1954.12.08
Consecrated Bishop:	1967.10.03
Died:	2003.05.06 († 78)

Bishop-Prelate of Itacoatiara (Brazil) (1965.07.20 – 1972.07.15)

Titular Bishop of Legis Volumni (1967.08.04 – 2003.05.06)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Catedral Prelatícia Nossa Senhora do Rosário, Itacoatiara, Amazonas

Borba (↙), Manaus (←), Roraima (↑), Óbidos (↗), Parintins (→)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 58,386 km²

Population: 114,700 Catholics (68.3% of 168,001 total)

Pastoral Centres: 13 parishes

Personnel: 13 priests (10 diocesan, 3 religious), 11 religious (3 brothers, 8 sisters), 4 seminarians