Roman Catholic Territorial Prelature of Itacoatiara
The Territorial Prelature of Itacoatiara is a Latin rite territorial prelature in the Ecclesiastical province of the Archdiocese of Manaus in Amazonas state, inland northern Brazil.
Its cathedral see is Catedral Prelatícia Nossa Senhora do Rosário, dedicated to Our Lady of the Rosary, in the city of Itacoatiara, Amazonas.History
- Established on July 13, 1963 as Territorial Prelature of Itacoatiara, on territory split off from its Metropolitan, the Archdiocese of Manaus.
Statistics
As per 2014, it pastorally served 137,400 Catholics on 58,424 km² in 13 parishes with 14 priests, 12 lay religious and 2 seminarians.Ordinaries
;Territorial Prelates of Itacoatiara
Apostolic Administrator João de Souza Lima while Metropolitan Archbishop of Manaus , next Coadjutor Archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia ; previously Titular Bishop of Derbe as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Diamantina , Bishop of Nazaré Jorge Eduardo Marskell, S.F.M. Carillo Gritti, Consolata Missionaries José Ionilton Lisboa de Oliveira, Society of Divine Vocations .
