Roman Catholicism in Brazil

The Roman Catholic Church in Brazil is part of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope and curia in Rome. The Church in Brazil is the largest national church within the Roman Catholic Church.

Organization

The Roman Catholic Church in Brazil belong to approximately 137 million Brazilians, representing approximately 74% of the total population. In the last two decades a relatively strong exodus of Catholics towards the Protestant Free Churches could be observed.

Odilo Scherer in 2007 was appointed as the new Metropolitan Archbishop of São Paulo. Scherer is the general secretary of the Brazilian Bishops Conference ( Conferência Nacional dos Bispos do Brasil, cnbb ). The 58- year-old comes from a German -born peasant family. He grew up with ten brothers and sisters. In 2003 he was elected for four years as Secretary-General of the Brazilian Bishops Conference, the world's largest Catholic church. By the spring of 2005 Odilo Scherer was Auxiliary Bishop of São Paulo. Raymundo Damasceno Assis since May 2011 Chairman of the Brazilian Bishops' Conference and successor of Geraldo Lyrio Rocha.

The Brazilian church with about 140 million believers is divided into 41 ecclesiastical provinces with 265 dioceses or Territorialprälaturen. In addition, in Brazil there is a Apostolic Administration and Military Ordinariate.

Archdioceses and ecclesiastical provinces in Brazil

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

Personalities

  • Paulo Evaristo Arns OFM, Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of São Paulo, liberation theologian
  • Leonardo Boff, liberation theologian
  • Cardinal Odilo Scherer, Archbishop of São Paulo
  • Marcelo Rossi, a priest and a 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 emeritus Cardinal
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Porto Alegre Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Olinda e Recife Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Fortaleza Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Belo Horizonte Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Campinas Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Feira de Santana Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Curitiba Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Manaus Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Botucatu Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Teresina Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Sorocaba Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Natal Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mariana Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Pouso Alegre Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Uberaba Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Campo Grande Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Londrina Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Aparecida Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cascavel Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Juiz de Fora Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Montes Claros Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Porto Velho Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Palmas Hélder Câmara
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