Archdiocese of Maringá
Archdiocese of Maringá | |
Basic data | |
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Country | Brazil |
Diocesan bishop | Severino Clasen OFM |
Emeritus diocesan bishop | Anuar Battisti |
founding | 1956 |
surface | 6,298 km² |
Parishes | 56 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Residents | 764,698 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Catholics | 558.229 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
proportion of | 73% |
Diocesan priest | 76 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Religious priest | 11 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Catholics per priest | 6,416 |
Permanent deacons | 60 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Friars | 29 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Religious sisters | 101 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
rite | Roman rite |
Liturgical language | Portuguese |
cathedral | Catedral Metropolitana Basílica Nossa Senhora da Glória |
Website | www.arquimaringa.org.br |
Suffragan dioceses |
Diocese of Campo Mourão Diocese of Paranavaí Diocese of Umuarama |
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Maringá ( Latin Archidioecesis Maringaënsis , Portuguese Arquidiocese de Maringá ) is in Brazil located Roman Catholic archdiocese , based in Maringa in the state of Paraná .
history
Pope Pius XII founded the Archdiocese with the Apostolic Constitution Latissimas partire Ecclesias on February 1, 1956 from cession of territory by the Diocese of Jacarezinho and it was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Curitiba as a suffragan diocese. On January 20, 1968, it lost part of its territory to the Paranavaí diocese .
It became part of the ecclesiastical province of the Archdiocese of Londrina on October 31, 1970 . With the Apostolic Constitution Quamquam est munus , it was elevated to the Metropolitan Archbishopric on October 16, 1979 .
Ordinaries
Bishop of Maringá
- Jaime Luiz Coelho (December 3, 1956 - October 16, 1979)
Archbishops of Maringá
- Jaime Luiz Coelho (October 16, 1979 - May 7, 1997)
- Murilo Sebastião Ramos Krieger SCJ (May 7, 1997 - February 20, 2002, then Archbishop of Florianópolis )
- João Braz de Aviz (July 17, 2002 - January 28, 2004, then Archbishop of Brasília )
- Anuar Battisti (September 29, 2004 - November 20, 2019)
- Severino Clasen OFM (since July 1, 2020)
See also
Web links
- Entry on Archdiocese of Maringá on catholic-hierarchy.org (English)
- Entry on Archdiocese of Maringá on gcatholic.org (English)