Roman Catholic Church in Brazil

The Roman Catholic Cathedral of São Paulo

The Roman Catholic Church in Brazil is part of the Roman Catholic Church worldwide . The Brazilian Church is the largest national church within the Roman Catholic Church.

organization

The Brazilian Church with around 123 million believers is divided into 43 ecclesiastical provinces with 265 dioceses or territorial prelatures . There is also an Apostolic Administration and a Military Ordinary in Brazil .

The proportion of Catholics is around 64% of the total population. In the last two decades a relatively strong migration of Catholics towards Protestant free churches has been observed.

Episcopal Conference

The Brazilian Bishops 'Conference ( Conferência Nacional dos Bispos do Brasil , CNBB) is the world's largest national bishops' conference of the Catholic Church. The last chairman was the Archbishop of Mariana , Geraldo Lyrio Rocha , who was followed in May 2011 by the Archbishop of Aparecida , Raymundo Damasceno Cardinal Assis . Since April 20, 2015, the Archbishop of Brasília (from 2020 Archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia), Sérgio Cardinal da Rocha , has been Chairman of the Brazilian Bishops' Conference.

Archbishopric and ecclesiastical provinces in Brazil

Church provinces in Brazil

• Archdiocese of São Salvador da Bahia (founded 1676)
• Archdiocese of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro (1892)
• Archdiocese of Belém do Pará (1906)
• Archdiocese of Mariana (1906)
• Archdiocese of São Paulo (1908)
• Archdiocese of Cuiabá (1910)
• Archdiocese of Porto Alegre (1910)
• Archdiocese of Paraíba (1914)
• Archdiocese of Fortaleza (1915)
• Archdiocese of Diamantina (1917)
• Archdiocese of Olinda e Recife (1918)
• Archdiocese of Maceió (1920)
• Archdiocese of São Luís do Maranhão (1921)
• Archdiocese of Belo Horizonte (1924)
• Archdiocese of Curitiba (1926)
• Archdiocese of Florianópolis (1927)
• Archdiocese of Manaus (1952)
• Archdiocese of Natal (1952)
• Archdiocese of Teresina (1952)
• Archdiocese of Goiânia (1956)
• Archdiocese of Aparecida (1958)
• Archdiocese of Botucatu (1958)
• Archdiocese of Campinas (1958)
• Archdiocese of Ribeirão Preto (1958)
• Archdiocese of Vitória (1958)
• Archdiocese of Aracajú (1960)
• Archdiocese of Niterói (1960)
• Archdiocese of Juiz de Fora (1962)
• Archdiocese of Pouso Alegre (1962)
• Archdiocese of Uberaba (1962)
• Archdiocese of Brasília (1966)
• Archdiocese of Londrina (1970)
• Archdiocese of Campo Grande (1978)
• Archdiocese of Cascavel (1979)
• Archdiocese of Maringá (1979)
• Archdiocese of Porto Velho (1982)
• Archdiocese of Sorocaba (1992)
• Archdiocese of Palmas (1996)
• Archdiocese of Montes Claros (2001)
• Archdiocese of Feira de Santana (2002)
• Archdiocese of Vitória da Conquista (2002)
• Archdiocese of Pelotas (2011)
• Archdiocese of Santa Maria (2011)
• Archdiocese of Santarém (2019)

Great personalities

• Paulo Evaristo Cardinal Arns OFM , Archbishop of São Paulo , Liberation Theologian (†)
• Leonardo Boff , Liberation Theologian
• Odilo Cardinal Scherer , Archbishop of São Paulo
• Marcelo Rossi , priest and symbolic figure of the Brazilian charismatic movement
• Dom Helder Camara , Archbishop of Olinda and Recife (†)
• Erwin Kräutler CPPS , Bishop and Prelate of Xingu , awarded the alternative Nobel Prize 2010
• Cláudio Cardinal Hummes , former Archbishop of São Paulo and Cardinal Emeritus

See also

• List of Roman Catholic Dioceses
• Church in colonial Brazil

Web links

• Statistics of the Brazilian dioceses on www.catholic-hierarchy.org
• Stefan Silber: Impetus from Brazil for pastoral conversion in Germany (2018)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística: Censo Demográfico 2000 (PDF; 12.17 MB, Portuguese).
2. ↑ US Department of State: International Religious Freedom Report 2005 - Brazil (English.)
3. ↑ Vatican Radio Brazil: New President of the Bishops' Conference. In: Holy See Press Office: Daily Bulletin. May 10, 2011.
4. ^ Dom Sérgio da Rocha é eleito novo presidente da CNBB. In: Homepage. Brazilian Bishops' Conference, April 21, 2015, archived from the original on April 22, 2015 ; Retrieved May 6, 2015 (Portuguese).