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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 ...
List of Roman Catholic dioceses in Brazil This page was last edited on 26 March 2024, at 12:06 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Brazilian Roman Catholic diocese stubs (251 P) Pages in category "Roman Catholic dioceses in Brazil" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 275 total.
The first diocese in Brazil was erected more than 50 years later, in 1551. Brazil's strong Catholic heritage can be traced to the Iberian missionary zeal, with the 15th-century goal of spreading Christianity. The Church missions began to hamper the government policy of exploiting the natives.
The Archdiocese of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro (Latin: Archidioecesis Sancti Sebastiani Fluminis Ianuarii, lit. "Archdiocese of St. Sebastian of 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 ...
[2] [3] The Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church is the largest Independent Catholic church in Brazil, with 560,781 members as of 2010, and 26 dioceses as of 2021; [4] internationally, it has an additional 6 dioceses and 6 provinces. [5] It is governed by a president bishop and the Episcopal Council. [6]
The Archdiocese of São Paulo (Latin: Archidioecesis Sancti Pauli in Brasilia) is a Latin Metropolitan Archbishopric of the Roman Catholic Church in Brazil.. The Archdiocese has been headed by Odilo Scherer since his appointment by Pope Benedict XVI on 21 March 2007, an appointment that ended almost four decades of Franciscan leadership in the archdiocese: both predecessors, Cardinals Paulo ...
Roman Catholic dioceses in Brazil (1 C, 275 P) E. Eastern Catholic dioceses in Brazil ...