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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 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.
The Catholic Church is "the Catholic Communion of Churches, both Roman and Eastern, or Oriental, that are in full communion with the Bishop of Rome ()." [2] The church is also known by members as the People of God, the Body of Christ, the "Temple of the Holy Spirit", among other names. [2]
See: List of cathedrals in Brazil. Catedral de Nossa Senhora do Paraíso; Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis Gonzaga; ... List of Catholic churches in Brazil.
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.
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 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 venerated Catholics" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...