The thesis entitled “Between the Tiber and the Amazon: The romanization winds through
the Church of Manaus (1916-1958)” presents a historical rescue of the trajectory of the
Diocese/Archdiocese of Manaus, starting from the concern of the Church/State
relationship, the actions of the Episcopate and the Laity during the second and third
phases of the Romanization process, a project that gained more strength during the Papacy
of the Pios, emphasized here in the governments of Pio XI (1922-1939) and Pio XII
(1939-1958). The romanizing actions are visualized here, in three chapters, in the
administration of the leading Episcopate of the Church of Manaus, in its three diocesan
phases, the first being presented in an introductory form, and in the first archdiocesan
phase: Dom José Lourenço da Costa Aguiar (1894- 1905) and Dom Frederico Benício de
Sousa Costa (1907-1913), the first Phase of the Episcopate; Dom João Irineu Joffily and
Dom Friar Basílio Manuel Olímpio Pereira (1926-1941), the second Phase of the
Episcopate; Dom João da Mata Andrade e Amaral (1941-1948) and Dom Alberto
Gaudêncio Ramos (1949-1952), the third Phase of the Episcopate; the latter being
elevated to Archbishop by the same bull of elevation of Manaus to Archdiocese, in 1952,
constituting the first archdiocesan phase, until the beginning of 1958. The last chapter
brings the other ecclesiastical face of the Diocese/Archdiocese, in line with the Episcopate
and with the directives of the Holy See, the laity, who assume a differentiated role in this
period cut by the thesis, and, that in the case of the Church of Manaus , visibility was
given to the two most active: Pia Union of the Daughters, with expressive leadership from
1913 until the 1930s; and Catholic Action, which assumed the leadership of Catholic
associations from this decade onwards, and with its sectors reaching various instances of
society. Thus, the two ecclesial faces that make up the Church of Manaus are presented
historically, within the outline, problematization and context brought by this thesis.
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