Roman Catholic Archdiocese of São Paulo

The Archdiocese of São Paulo (Latin: Archidioecesis Sancti Pauli in Brasilia) is a Latin Metropolitan Archbishopric of the Roman Catholic Church in Brazil.

Archdiocese of São Paulo

Archidioecesis Sancti Pauli in Brasilia
Metropolitan Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption and St. Paul
Location
CountryBrazil
Ecclesiastical provinceSão Paulo
Coordinates23°33′04″S 46°38′04″W / 23.55111°S 46.63444°W / -23.55111; -46.63444
Statistics
Area655 km2 (253 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics
(as of 2017[1])
7,669,976
4,984,484 (65%)
Information
RiteLatin Rite
Established6 December 1745 (278 years ago)
CathedralCatedral Metropolitana Nossa Senhora da Assunção e São Paulo
Current leadership
PopeFrancis
ArchbishopOdilo Scherer
Auxiliary BishopsCicero Alves de França
José Benedito Cardoso
Rogério Augusto das Neves
Carlos Lema Garcia
Ângelo Ademir Mezzari
Jorge Pierozan
Carlos Silva
Website
arquisp.org.br/home

The Archdiocese is currently 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 Evaristo Arns and Cláudio Hummes, belonged to that Order.

Its cathedral episcopal see, the Catedral Metropolitana Nossa Senhora da Assunção e São Paulo, in the metropolis São Paulo, was dedicated to the Assumption of Mary on September 5, 1964. The city also has three minor basilicas : Basílica de Nossa Senhora da Assunção, Basílica de Nossa Senhora do Carmo (both also Marian) and Basílica do Santíssimo Sacramento (dedicated to the Holly Sacrament).

History

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Bishops

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Ordinaries

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Bishops of São Paulo
  • Bernardo Rodrigues Nogueira (1745–1748 )
  • Antônio da Madre de Deus Galvão, O.F.M. (1750–1764)
  • Manuel da Ressurreição, O.F.M. (1771–1789)
  • Miguel da Madre de Deus da Cruz, O.F.M. (1791–1795), appointed Archbishop of Braga (Portugal)
  • Mateus de Abreu Pereira (1795–1824)
  • Manuel Joaquim Gonçalves de Andrade (1827–1847)
  • Antônio Joaquim de Melo (1851–1861)
  • Sebastião Pinto do Rego (1861–1868)
  • Lino Deodato Rodrigues de Carvalho (1871–1894)
  • Joaquim Arcoverde de Albuquerque Cavalcanti (1894–1897), appointed Archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro (Cardinal in 1905)
  • Antônio Cândido Alvarenga (1898–1903
  • José de Camargo Barros (1903–1906)
  • Leopoldo Duarte e Silva (1906–1908)
Archbishops of São Paulo

Coadjutor Bishops

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  • Joaquim Arcoverde de Albuquerque Cavalcanti (1892–1894); future Cardinal
  • Antônio Maria Alves de Siqueira (1957–1966), did not succeed to see; appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Campinas, Sao Paulo

Auxiliary Bishops

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Other priests of this diocese who became bishops

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Province

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Its ecclesiastical province comprises the Metropolitan's own Archdiocese and these Suffragan bishoprics, mostly Latin too, but also a few Eastern Catholic, notably Byzantine Rite :

See also

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References

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  • Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "São Paulo" . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
  • GCatholic.org with incumbent biography links
  • Catholic Hierarchy