Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santarém, Brazil

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santarém (Dioecesis Santaremensis) is a Latin Church metropolitan archdiocese in northern Brazil. It was a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of Belém do Pará until 6 November 2019.

Its cathedral episcopal see is Catedral Nossa Senhora da Conceição, dedicated to the Immaculate Conception, in the city of Santarém, Brazil.

History

 * Established on 21 September 1903 as Territorial Prelature of Santarém, with territory split off from the Diocese of Belém do Pará
 * Lost territories:
 * 16 August 1934 to establish the Territorial Prelature of Xingu
 * 1 February 1949 to establish the Territorial Prelature of Macapá (later elevated to diocese status)
 * 10 April 1957 to establish the Territorial Prelature of Óbidos (later elevated to diocese status)
 * Elevated on 16 October 1979 to Diocese of Santarém
 * 6 July 1988, lost territory to establish the Territorial Prelature of Itaituba.
 * Promoted on 6 November 2019 as Archdiocese of Santarém

Statistics
As per 2014, it pastorally served 316,500 Catholics (70.2% of 451,000 total) on 171,906 km² in 22 parishes with 53 priests (26 diocesan, 27 religious), 90 lay religious (39 brothers, 51 sisters) and 19 seminarians.

Episcopal ordinaries

 * Territorial Prelates of Santarém
 * Frederico Benício de Souza e Costa (22 September 1904 – 8 January 1907), next Bishop of Amazonas (Brazil, now Metropolitan Archdiocese of Manaus) (1907.01.08 – 1914.04.16), emeritate as Titular Bishop of Thubunæ in Numidia (1914.04.16 – death 1938.03.26)
 * Amando Agostino Bahlmann, Order of Friars Minor (O.F.M.) (born Germany) (10 January 1907 – 5 March 1939), emeritate as Titular Bishop of Argos (1908.07.10 – death 1939.03.05)
 * Apostolic Administrator Father Anselmo Pietrulla, O.F.M. (born Poland) (1941 – 1947.12.13)
 * Anselmo Pietrulla, O.F.M. (13 December 1947 – 18 June 1949), Titular Bishop of Conana (1947.12.13 – 1949.06.18); later Apostolic Administrator of Territorial Prelature of Macapá (Brazil) (1949 – 1950.01.14), Bishop of Campina Grande (Brazil) (1949.06.18 – 1955.05.11), Bishop of Tubarão (Brazil) (1955.05.11 – retired 1981.09.17), died 1992
 * João Floriano Loewenau, O.F.M. (born Poland) (8 September 1950 – 12 September 1957), Titular Bishop of Drivastum (1950.09.08 – death 1979.06.04), also next as Bishop-Prelate of Óbidos (Brazil) (1957.09.12 – 1972) and on emeritate
 * Tiago Miguel Ryan, O.F.M. (born USA) (31 January 1958 – 16 October 1979 see below), Titular Bishop of Margum (1958.01.31 – 1978.05.26)


 * Suffragan Bishops of Santarém
 * Tiago Miguel Ryan, O.F.M. (see above 16 October 1979 – retired 27 November 1985), died 2002
 * Lino Vomboemmel, O.F.M. (27 November 1985 – death 28 February 2007); formerly Titular Bishop of Iunca in Byzacena (1981.05.25 – 1983.06.09), first as Auxiliary Bishop of Santarém (1981.05.25 – 1983.06.09) and then as Coadjutor Bishop of Santarém (1983.06.09 – succession 1985.11.27)
 * Esmeraldo Barreto de Farias (28 February 2007 – 30 November 2011), previously Bishop of Paulo Afonso (Brazil) (2000.03.22 – 2007.02.28); later Metropolitan Archbishop of Porto Velho (Brazil) (2011.11.30 – 2015.03.18), then Titular Bishop of Summula (2015.03.18 – ...) as Auxiliary Bishop of São Luís do Maranhão (Brazil) (2015.03.18 – ...)
 * Flávio Giovenale, S.D.B. (19 September 2012 – 19 September 2018), previously Bishop of Abaetetuba (Brazil) (1997.10.08 – 2012.09.19); appointed Bishop of Cruzeiro do Sul, Acre


 * Archbishops of Santarém
 * Irineu Roman, C.S.I. (6 November 2019 – present)

Coadjutor bishops

 * Eduardo José Herberhold, O.F.M. (1928-1931), as Coadjutor Prelate; did not succeed to see; appointed Bishop of Ilhéus, Bahia
 * Lino Vomboemmel, O.F.M. (1983-1985)

Auxiliary bishops

 * Lino Vomboemmel, O.F.M. (1981-1983), appointed Coadjutor here
 * Severino Batista de França, O.F.M. Cap. (2004-2007), appointed Bishop of Nazaré, Pernambuco

Other priest of this diocese who became bishop

 * Gilberto Pastana de Oliveira, appointed Bishop of Imperatriz, Maranhão in 2005

Ecclesiastical province
When it was raised to an Archdiocese, it was given three suffragans.


 * Diocese of Óbidos
 * Diocese of Xingu-Altamira
 * Territorial Prelature of Alto Xingu-Tucumã
 * Territorial Prelature of Itaituba

Sources and external links

 * GCatholic.org, with Google map and satellite photo - data for all sections
 * Catholic Hierarchy