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, archdiocese, eparchy or similar permanent ordinariate that either has no bishop or archbishop or, in very rare cases, has an incapacitated (arch)bishop. The title also applies to an outgoing (arch)bishop while awaiting for the date of assuming his new position.
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 OCist has been its Archbishop since 2009. Cardinal Eusébio Scheid SCI, who died on January 13, 2021, was Archbishop Emeritus.
A territorial prelate is, in Catholic usage, a prelate whose geographic jurisdiction, called territorial prelature, generally does not belong to any diocese and is considered a particular church.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Meru is a diocese located in the city of Meru in the ecclesiastical province of Nyeri in Kenya.
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 Philip II of Spain.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ayacucho o Huamanga is an archdiocese in the south-central Andes of Peru that was erected in the early 17th century, promoted to a metropolitan archdiocese in 1966 and covers the city of Ayacucho. Its archbishop—Archbishop Salvador Piñeiro García-Calderón has been leading the Archdiocese since 2011—is also the ecclesiastical provincial for the Diocese of Huancavelica and the Territorial Prelature of Caravelí.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Belém do Pará is an archdiocese located in the city of Belém in Brazil. It covers 3,566,079 square kilometres (1,376,871 sq mi) and is organized into 80 parishes. The Archdiocese covers the municipalities of Belém, Ananindeua, Benevides, Marituba, and Santa Bárbara 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 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 Bom Jesus do Gurguéia is a Latin suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archbishop of Teresina, in northeastern Brazil's Piauí state.
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 Territorial Prelature of Itacoatiara is a Latin Church territorial prelature of the Catholic Church in Amazonas state, inland northern Brazil. It is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Manaus.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Villarrica del Espíritu Santo is a Latin Rite suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Asunción, which cover all and only Paraguay.
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).
The Institute of Consolata Missionaries, commonly called the Consolata Missionaries, is a Catholic clerical religious congregation of Pontifical Right for men. Its members add the nominal I.M.C. after their names to indicate membership in the Institute.
