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.
John Stephen Cummins is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Oakland from 1977 to 2003.
Aloysius John Wycisło was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as the eighth bishop of the Diocese of Green Bay, Wisconsin, from 1968 to 1983. Previously he was an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Chicago in Illinois.
Francisco Mora i Borrell was a Catalan Catholic priest, who served as the Bishop of Monterey-Los Angeles from 1878 to 1896.
Joseph Aloysius Burke was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as bishop of the Diocese of Buffalo, New York from 1952 until his death in 1962.
Francis Anthony Quinn was an American Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Bishop of the Diocese of Sacramento from 1980 to 1993.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Curitiba is a Latin rite Metropolitan archdiocese in Paraná, southern Brazil.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Florianópolis is an archdiocese located in the city of Florianópolis in Brazil.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Paraíba is a Latin Metropolitan archdiocese, named after the city of João Pessoa, which used to be named Paraíba, in southeastern Brazil.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ribeirão Preto is an archdiocese located in the city of Ribeirão Preto in Brazil.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Chapecó is a diocese located in the city of Chapecó in the Ecclesiastical province of Florianópolis in Brazil.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Joaçaba is a Roman Catholic diocese centered in the city of Joaçaba in the Ecclesiastical province of Florianópolis, in Santa Catarina state, Brazil. The seat of the diocese is located on the Cathedral of St. Therese of the Child of Jesus, Joaçaba. It is bordered by the Catarinense dioceses of Chapecó, Caçador and Lages, as well as the dioceses of Erexim and Vacaria on the south and the diocese of Palmas–Francisco Beltrão on the north.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Lages is a Latin rite suffragan diocese in the Ecclesiastical province of Florianópolis in Santa Catarina state, Brazil.
Albert Henry Ottenweller was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Steubenville from 1977 to 1992.
Celestine Joseph Damiano was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Apostolic Delegate to South Africa (1953–1960) and Bishop of Camden (1960–1967).
Joseph Howard Hodges was an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Wheeling-Charleston from 1962 until his death in 1985.
Archbishop Francis Mansour Zayek was a prelate of the Maronite Church. He was the founding eparch of the Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Saint Maron of Brooklyn, an Eastern Catholic diocese based in Brooklyn, New York, which covers the eastern coast of the United States.
João Braz de Aviz is a prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He has served as the prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life since his appointment by Pope Benedict XVI in 2011. He began his career working for twenty years as a parish priest and seminary teacher. He became a bishop in 1994 and was bishop of Ponta Grossa from 1998 to 2002, archbishop of Maringá from 2002 to 2004, and archbishop of Brasília from 2004 to 2011.
James Odongo was a Ugandan Roman Catholic prelate who served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tororo in Uganda, from 5 January 1985, until his retirement on 27 June 2007. He had also served as Auxiliary Bishop of Tororo, Uganda from 25 November 1964 until 19 August 1968, and as Archbishop of Tororo Archdiocese from 2 January 1999 until 27 June 2007.
Angélico Sândalo Bernardino is a Roman Catholic bishop of Blumenau.
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