Roman Catholic Archdiocese 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
• *10 April 1957 to establish the Territorial Prelature of Óbidos
• 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

Episcopal ordinaries

• Frederico Benício de Souza e Costa, next Bishop of Amazonas , emeritate as Titular Bishop of Thubunæ in Numidia
• Amando Agostino Bahlmann, Order of Friars Minor , emeritate as Titular Bishop of Argos
• Apostolic Administrator Father Anselmo Pietrulla, O.F.M.
• Anselmo Pietrulla, O.F.M., Titular Bishop of Conana ; later Apostolic Administrator of Territorial Prelature of Macapá , Bishop of Campina Grande , Bishop of Tubarão , died 1992
• João Floriano Loewenau, O.F.M. , Titular Bishop of Drivastum, also next as Bishop-Prelate of Óbidos and on emeritate
• Tiago Miguel Ryan, O.F.M. , Titular Bishop of Margum

• Tiago Miguel Ryan, O.F.M., died 2002
• Lino Vomboemmel, O.F.M. ; formerly Titular Bishop of Iunca in Byzacena, first as Auxiliary Bishop of Santarém and then as Coadjutor Bishop of Santarém
• Esmeraldo Barreto de Farias, previously Bishop of Paulo Afonso ; later Metropolitan Archbishop of Porto Velho , then Titular Bishop of Summula as Auxiliary Bishop of São Luís do Maranhão
• Flávio Giovenale, S.D.B., previously Bishop of Abaetetuba ; appointed Bishop of Cruzeiro do Sul, Acre

• Irineu Roman, C.S.I.

  Other affiliated bishops

Coadjutor bishops

• Eduardo José Herberhold, O.F.M. , as Coadjutor Prelate; did not succeed to see; appointed Bishop of Ilhéus, Bahia
• Lino Vomboemmel, O.F.M.

  Auxiliary bishops

• Lino Vomboemmel, O.F.M., appointed Coadjutor here
• Severino Batista de França, O.F.M. Cap., 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

• Diocese of Óbidos
• Diocese of Xingu-Altamira
• Territorial Prelature of Alto Xingu-Tecumã