Catholic Church in Brazil | |
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Portuguese: Igreja Católica no Brasil | |
Type | National polity |
Classification | Catholic |
Orientation | Latin |
Scripture | Bible |
Theology | Catholic theology |
Polity | Episcopal |
Governance | CNBB |
Pope | Francis |
President | Walmor Oliveira de Azevedo |
Primate | Sérgio da Rocha |
Region | Brazil |
Language | Portuguese, Latin |
Origin | c 1500 Colonial Brazil, Portuguese Empire |
Separations | Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church |
Members | 123 million - 127 million [1] [2] - 134 million [3] - 140 million [4] [5] |
Official website | CNBB |
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This list of Catholic dioceses and archdioceses of Brazil which includes both the dioceses of the Latin Church, which employ the Latin liturgical rites, and various other dioceses, primarily the eparchies of the Eastern Catholic Churches, which employ various Eastern Christian rites, and which are in full communion with the Pope in Rome.
The Catholic Church in Brazil has a total of 275 particular churches — consisting of 45 archdioceses (which head 45 ecclesiastical provinces), 218 dioceses (2 of which are Eastern eparchies under Latin jurisdiction), 7 territorial prelatures, the Archeparchy of São João Batista em Curitiba and the Eparchy of Imaculada Conceição in Prudentópolis under the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, the Armenian Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Latin America and Mexico, the Ordinariate for the Faithful of Eastern Rites in Brazil, the Military Ordinariate of Brazil, and the Personal Apostolic Administration of Saint John Mary Vianney (the only personal apostolic administration in the world). These 275 divisions make the largest number of particular churches in any country.
State of São Paulo.
State of Paraná.
State of Rio Grande do Sul.
State of Santa Catarina.
State of Amazonas.
State of Pará.
State of Tocantins.
State of Rio de Janeiro.
State of Minas Gerais.
State of Goiás and the Federal District.
State of Mato Grosso do Sul.
State of Mato Grosso.
States of Rondônia, Acre and Amazonas.
State of Ceará.
States of Pernambuco, Alagoas, Paraíba and Rio Grande do Norte.
State of Piauí.
State of Maranhão.
part of the Armenian Catholic Church (Armenian Rite)
part of the Eastern particular Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, using its Ukrainian language Byzantine rite
excluding those which were simply promoted to existing ones above
Citations
The Archdiocese of São Paulo is a Latin Metropolitan Archbishopric of the Roman Catholic Church in Brazil.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Maputo is the Metropolitan See for the ecclesiastical province of Maputo in Mozambique.
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 Diocese of (Santíssima) Conceição do Araguaia is a Latin suffragan diocese of the Roman Catholic church, in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan of Belém do Pará in Brazil.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Curitiba is a Latin Rite Metropolitan archdiocese in Paraná, southern Brazil.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mariana is an archdiocese based in the city of Mariana in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais.
The Metropolitan Archdiocese of Olinda and Recife is a Latin metropolitan archdiocese in northeast Brazil's Pernambuco state.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ribeirão Preto is an archdiocese located in the city of Ribeirão Preto in Brazil.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of São Luís do Maranhão is a Latin archdiocese in Brazil.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Cachoeira do Sul is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of Santa Maria in southern Brazil.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Campanha is a diocese located in the city of Campanha in the ecclesiastical province of Pouso Alegre in Brazil.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of São João da Boa Vista is a diocese located in the city of São João da Boa Vista in the ecclesiastical province of Ribeirão Preto in Brazil.
The Ordinariate of Brazil for the faithful of the Eastern rite or Brazil of the Eastern Rite is an ordinariate for the Eastern Catholics in Brazil without proper jurisdiction of their own particular churches sui iuris.
The Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of the Imaculada Conceição in Prudentópolis is a Ukrainian Greek Catholic eparchy (diocese) in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archeparchy of São João Batista em Curitiba, who has no other suffragan, dependent on the Roman Congregation for the Eastern Churches.