São João Batista em Curitiba Archepark

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São João Batista em Curitiba Archepark
Map of São João Batista em Curitiba Archipelago
Basic data
Rite church Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
Country Brazil
Diocesan bishop Valdomiro Koubetch OSBM
founding 1962
Parishes 26 (2014 / AP 2015 )
Residents 110,000 ( 1968 )
Catholics 85,000 (2014 / AP 2015 )
proportion of 79.3%
Diocesan priest 21 (2014 / AP 2015 )
Religious priest 26 (2014 / AP 2015 )
Catholics per priest 1,809
Permanent deacons 2 (2014 / AP 2015 )
Friars 39 (2014 / AP 2015 )
Religious sisters 170 (2014 / AP 2015 )
rite Byzantine rite
Liturgical language Ukrainian
Portuguese
cathedral Catedral Ucraniana São João Batista
Website http://www.eparquiaucraniana.com.br/site/
Suffragan dioceses Eparchy Imaculada Conceição in Prudentópolis

The archeparchy São João Batista em Curitiba ( lat. Archieparchia Sancti Ioannis Baptistae Curitibensis Ucrainorum ) is with Rome Uniate archeparchy the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Brazil .

Diocese history

Members of the religious order of the Basilians of St. Josaphat established the first mission station in Brazil in 1897 . Between 1931 and 1948 this religious institution developed into the Order of St. Joseph in Brazil. The Archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro Jaime Cardinal de Barros Câmara was born in 1952 by Pope Pius XII . Appointed Apostolic Visitor for the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Brazil. In 1958, José Romão Martenetz OSBM was appointed auxiliary bishop for the faithful of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Brazil.

Today's Eparchy of São João Batista em Curitiba (Eparchy of St. John the Baptist ) comes from the Apostolic Exarchate , which was founded on May 30, 1962 for the United Ukrainians in Brazil. The elevation to the eparchy took place on November 29, 1971. The headquarters of the eparchy is located in Curitiba , the capital of the Brazilian state Paraná .

Pope Francis elevated the eparchy to the rank of archparchy and metropolitan seat on May 12, 2014 . At the same time she gave territorial shares to the establishment of the Eparchy Imaculada Conceição in Prudentópolis . This received the previous auxiliary bishop Meron Mazur OSBM as the first bishop and was subordinated to the new archeparch as a suffragan .

Ordinaries

Auxiliary bishops

statistics

year population priest Permanent
deacons 		Religious Parishes
Catholics Total number Diocesan
priest 		Religious
priest 		Catholics
per priest 		male Female
1966 99,000 46 9 37 2.152 88 382 15th
1968 95,000 44 8th 36 2.159 65 432 13
1976 136.213 49 9 40 2,779 1 63 323 17th
1980 96,640 47 9 38 2,056 1 64 397 18th
1990 130,000 62 15th 47 2,096 1 88 453 21st
1998 162,000 68 15th 53 2,382 1 91 436 25th
1999 162,000 68 15th 53 2,382 1 91 436 25th
2001 162,000 63 13 50 2,571 2 89 446 22nd
2002 161,500 67 15th 52 2,410 2 89 458 22nd
2003 161,500 73 18th 55 2.212 2 92 460 22nd
2004 161,500 77 20th 57 2,097 2 96 456 23
2009 162,000 87 22nd 65 1,862 2 86 485 23
2010 85,000 47 21st 26th 1,808 2 39 170 26th

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