An Apostolic administration in the Catholic Church is administrated by a prelate appointed by the pope to serve as the ordinary for a specific area. Either the area is not yet a diocese, or is a diocese, eparchy or similar permanent ordinariate that either has no bishop or, in very rare cases, has an incapacitated bishop.
The Archdiocese of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro in Brazil was established as a territorial prelature on July 19, 1575. It was elevated to the status of a diocese on November 16, 1676. It was later elevated to a metropolitan archdiocese on April 27, 1892. On May 6, 2003, the territorial abbey of Nossa Senhora do Monserrate do Rio de Janeiro lost its territorial rank and was added to the archdiocese. Cardinal Orani João Tempesta O. Cist. has been its Archbishop since 2009. Cardinal Eusébio Scheid S.C.I., who died on January 13, 2021, was Archbishop Emeritus.
A territorial prelate is, in Catholic usage, a prelate whose geographic jurisdiction, called territorial prelature, does not belong to any diocese and is considered a particular church.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cusco is a Latin Metropolitan archdiocese with see in the city and old Inca imperial capital of Cusco, in Peru.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Arequipa is an archdiocese located in the city of Arequipa in Peru. It was erected by Pope Gregory XIII on 15 April 1577 at the request of King Phillip II of Spain.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ayacucho o Huamanga is an archdiocese located in the city of Ayacucho in Peru.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Belém do Pará is an archdiocese located in the city of Belém in Brazil.
The Diocese of Marabá is a Latin Church ecclesiastic territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Brazil. Its episcopal see is Marabá. The Diocese of Marabá is in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Belém do Pará.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santarém 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.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cuiabá is an archdiocese located in the city of Cuiabá in Brazil.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Curitiba is a Latin rite Metropolitan archdiocese in Paraná, southern Brazil.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Manaus is an archdiocese located in the city of Manaus in Brazil.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Porto Velho is an archdiocese located in the city of Porto Velho in Brazil.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Humaitá is a diocese located in the city of Humaitá in the Ecclesiastical province of Porto Velho in Brazil.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Pinheiro is a diocese located in the city of Pinheiro in the Ecclesiastical province of São Luís do Maranhão in Brazil.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Bayombong is a Roman Rite diocese of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church in the Philippines. Its seat is the Bayombong Cathedral.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Iligan is a Roman Rite diocese of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church in the Philippines comprising 25 parishes in Iligan City and twelve municipalities located at the northern half of the Province of Lanao del Norte.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Malaybalay is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in the Philippines.
Aldo Mongiano, IMC was an Italian-born Brazil-based bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. Mongiano was born in Pontestura, Italy, and was ordained a priest on 3 June 1943, from the religious order of the Consolata Missionaries. Mongiano was appointed bishop of the Diocese of Roraima as well as Titular bishop of Nasai on 14 May 1975, and consecrated on 5 October 1975. He resigned as Titular bishop of Nasai and was appointed bishop of Roraima on 4 December 1979. Mongiano retired from the Roraima Diocese on 26 June 1996. Mongiano died on 15 April 2020 at the age of 100 from complications from a broken femur.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Rio Branco is a Latin suffragan see in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archbishop of Porto Velho (Rondônia), in the upper Amazon River basin).
