Diocese of Cruzeiro do Sul
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Cruzeiro do Sul is a suffragan see in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Porto Velho, Acre (state), westernmost Amazonian Brazil.
Its cathedral episcopal see is the Marian Catedral Nossa Senhora da Gloria, in the city of Cruzeiro do Sul, Acre.
Statistics
As per 2014, it pastorally served 230,966 Catholics on 126,633 km² in 12 parishes and 99 missions with 25 priests, 91 lay religious and 13 seminarians.History
- On 22 May 1931, Pope Pius XI established the Territorial Prelature of Juruá, on canonical territory split off from the then Territorial Prelature of Tefé.
- Pope John Paul II elevated the prelature to Diocese of Cruzeiro do Sul on 25 June 1987.
Bishops
Episcopal ordinaries
; Prelates of Juruá- Heinrich Ritter (bishop), Holy Ghost Fathers, Titular Bishop of Rhosus
- Father Henrique Klein
- José Hascher, C.S.Sp., Titular Bishop of Æliæ
- Heinrich Rüth, C.S.Sp., Titular Bishop of Leptiminus, succeeding as former Coadjutor Bishop-Prelate of Territorial Prelature of Jurua
- Heinrich Rüth, C.S.Sp., died 2006
- Luís Herbst, C.S.Sp., previously Coadjutor Bishop-Prelate of Territorial Prelature of Jurua, promoted and restyled Coadjutor Bishop of Cruzeiro do Sul
- Mosé João Pontelo, C.S.Sp., succeeding as former Coadjutor Bishop of Cruzeiro do Sul .
- Flávio Giovenale, S.D.B.
Coadjutor bishops
- Heinrich Rüth, C.S.Sp., as Coadjutor Prelate
- Luís Herbst, C.S.Sp., with 1979-1987 as Coadjutor Prelate
- Mosé João Pontelo, C.S.Sp.