Belem Do Para (Catholic Encyclopedia article)
Francisco Yanes · 1913
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Description
Belém do Pará is a Brazilian archdiocese, suffragan of Bahia from 1719 and metropolitan from 3 May 1906. Its city, capital of Pará on the Bay of Guajara, bears the full name Santa Maria de Nazareth do Pará and was founded in 1615. It is South America's most northerly important port, nearest North America and Europe, and the great outlet for Pará's rubber and coffee.
The city holds 100,000 people, with exports near $25,000,000 and imports near $12,000,000 yearly. Its old Carmelite convent became a seminary, its Jesuit college now houses the episcopal palace and another seminary. The Amparo Orphan Asylum ranks among the state's leading charities, and the archdiocese counts about 480,000 Catholics. Its seventy-seven parishes are served by forty-seven secular and thirteen religious priests, with twenty-one brothers.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Francisco Yanes |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1913 |
| COLLECTION | REFERENCE |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | New Advent — Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) |