Archdiocese of Belém do Pará

Archdiocese of Belém do Pará
Basic data
Country	Brazil
Diocesan bishop	Alberto Taveira Corrêa
Auxiliary bishop	Antônio de Assis Ribeiro
Vicar General	Marcelino Gonçalves Ferreira
founding	18th century
surface	2,082 km²
Parishes	84 ( 12/31/2015 / AP2016 )
Residents	2,342,061 (December 31, 2015 / AP2016 )
Catholics	1,931,126 ( 12/31/2015 / AP2016 )
proportion of	82.5%
Diocesan priest	108 ( 12/31/2015 / AP2016 )
Religious priest	90 (December 31, 2015 / AP2016 )
Catholics per priest	9,753
Permanent deacons	87 ( 12/31/2015 / AP2016 )
Friars	163 ( 12/31/2015 / AP2016 )
Religious sisters	399 (December 31, 2015 / AP2016 )
rite	Roman rite
Liturgical language	Portuguese
cathedral	Catedral Metropolitana Nossa Senhora das Graças
Website	www.arquidiocesedebelem.com.br
Suffragan dioceses	Diocese of Abaetetuba Diocese of Bragança do Pará Diocese of Cametá Diocese of Castanhal Diocese of Macapá Diocese of Marabá Territorial Prelature of Marajó Diocese of Ponta de Pedras Diocese of Santíssima Conceição do Araguaia

Catedral Metropolitana Nossa Senhora das Graças in Belém

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Belém do Pará ( lat. : Archidioecesis Belemensis de Pará ) is in Brazil located Roman Catholic archdiocese , based in Belém in the state of Pará .

history

The diocese of Belém do Pará was on March 4, 1720 by Pope Clement XI. Erected with the papal bull Copiosus in Misericordia from cessions of territory of the diocese of São Luís do Maranhão and subordinated to the archbishopric of São Salvador da Bahia as a suffragan . On May 1, 1906, the diocese of Belém do Pará was raised to an archbishopric by Pope Pius X with the papal bull Sempiternum humani generis . The archbishopric gave up several times in its history parts of its territory to establish new dioceses.

Bishops

Bishops of Belém do Pará

• Bartolomeu do Pilar OCarm , 1720-1733
• Guilherme de São José Antonio de Aranha , 1738–1748
• Miguel de Bulhões e Souza OP , 1748–1760, then Bishop of Leiria
• João de São José de Queiroz da Silveira OSB , 1760–1763
• João Evangelista Pereira da Silva TOR , 1771–1782
• Caetano da Anunciação Brandão TOR, 1782–1790, then Archbishop of Braga
• Manoel de Almeida de Carvalho , 1790-1818
• Romualdo de Souza Coelho , 1820–1841
• José Affonso de Moraes Torres CM , 1844-1857
• Antônio de Macedo Costa , 1860–1890, then Archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia
• Jerônimo Tomé da Silva , 1890–1893, then Archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia
• Antônio Manoel de Castilho Brandão , 1894–1901, then Bishop of Alagôas
• Francisco do Rego Maia , 1901-1906
• José Marcondes Homem de Melo , 1906

Archbishops of Belém do Pará

• José Marcondes Homem de Melo, 1906
• Santino Maria da Silva Coutinho , 1906–1923, then Archbishop of Maceió
• João Irineu Joffily , 1924–1931
• Antônio de Almeida Lustosa SDB , 1931–1941, then Archbishop of Fortaleza
• Jaime de Barros Câmara , 1941–1943, then Archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro
• Mário de Miranda Vilas-Boas , 1944–1956, then coadjutor archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia
• Alberto Gaudêncio Ramos , 1957–1990
• Vicente Joaquim Zico CM , 1990-2004
• Orani Tempesta OCist , 2004-2009
• Alberto Taveira Corrêa , since 2009

See also

• Roman Catholic Church in Brazil
• List of Roman Catholic Dioceses

Web links

• Entry for Archdiocese of Belém do Pará on catholic-hierarchy.org