List of Archbishops of Rio de Janeiro

The following people were bishops and archbishops of Rio de Janeiro ( Brazil ):

• Bartolomeu Simões Pereira (1577–1591)
• João da Costa (1603-1606)
• Bartholomeu Lagarto (1606-1606)
• Mateus da Costa Aborim (1606–1629)
• Máximo Pereira, OSB (1629–1629)
• Lourenço de Mendonça (1631–1637)
• Pedro Homem Albernaz (1639-1643)
• Antonio de Mariz Loureiro (1643–1657)
• Manoel de Souza e Almada (1658–1670)
• Francisco da Silveira Dias (1671–1681) (first bishop from 1676)
• Francisco de São Jerõnimo de Andrade, CSJ (1701–1721)
• Antônio de Guadalupe, OFM (1725-1740)
• João da Cruz Salgado de Castilho, OCD (1740–1745)
• Antônio de Nossa Senhora do Desterro Malheiro, OSB (1745–1773)
• José Joaquim Justiniano Mascarenhas Castello Branco (1773-1805)
• José Caetano da Silva Coutinho (1806–1833)
• Manoel de Monte Rodrigues de Araújo (1839–1863)
• Pedro Maria de Lacerda (1868–1890)
• José Pereira da Silva Barros (1891-1893) (first archbishop from 1892)
• João Fernando Santiago Esberard (Esberrard) (1893-1897)
• Cardinal Joaquim Arcoverde de Albuquerque Cavalcanti (1897-1930)
• Cardinal Sebastião Leme da Silveira Cintra (1930–1942)
• Jaime Cardinal de Barros Câmara (1943–1971)
• Cardinal Eugênio de Araújo Sales (1971-2001)
• Eusébio Cardinal Scheid SCI (2001-2009)
• Orani João Cardinal Tempesta OCist (since 2009)