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Victor Meirelles's "The first Mass in Brazil", 1861. The Catholic Church has been present in the territory of the modern nation of Brazil since the first Mass was said there in 1500 and today claims the largest population of Catholics of any country in the world. Nonetheless, the country has produced few officially canonized saints thus far.
The following is a list of Brazilian cardinals in the Roman Catholic Church ordered by years of consistory which elevated them to cardinalcy. [ 2 ] Of the twenty-five Brazilian cardinals, six are from Santa Catarina , five from Minas Gerais , four from Rio Grande do Sul , four from São Paulo , two from Pernambuco , one from Alagoas , one from ...
Pages in category "Brazilian Roman Catholics" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 327 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
The Catholic Church recognizes some deceased Catholics as saints, blesseds, venerables, and Servants of God. Some of these people were born, died, or lived their religious life in any of the territories of South America. The Catholic Church entered South America in 1500 through Brazil and quickly expanded across the continent with the Spanish ...
The Catholic Church is the largest denomination in the country, where 123 million people, [6] or 64.6% of the Brazilian population, were self-declared Catholics in 2010. [7] These figures made Brazil the single country with the largest Catholic community in the world.
List of Catholic dioceses in Brazil; S. List of venerated Brazilian Catholics This page was last edited on 6 February 2016, at 03:40 (UTC). ...
Pages in category "Brazilian venerated Catholics" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Brazilian Roman Catholics (12 C, 327 P) Pages in category "Brazilian Catholics" This category contains only the following page. This list may not reflect recent ...