Roman Catholic Archdiocese of São Paulo

There is also a Diocese of São Paulo (and a Bishop of São Paulo) in the Anglican Episcopal Church of Brazil.

Archdiocese of São Paulo Archidioecesis Sancti Pauli in Brasilia
Metropolitan Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption and St. Paul
Location
Country	Brazil
Ecclesiastical province	São Paulo
Statistics
Area	655 km2 (253 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2014) 6,899,270 4,815,000 (70%)
Information
Rite	Latin Rite
Established	6 December 1745 (272 years ago)
Cathedral	Catedral Metropolitana Nossa Senhora da Assunção e São Paulo
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Archbishop	Odilo Scherer
Auxiliary Bishops	Júlio Endi Akamine S.A.C. Devair Araújo da Fonseca Sérgio de Deus Borges José Roberto Fortes Palau Carlos Lema Garcia Eduardo Vieira dos Santos
Website
www.arquidiocesedesaopaulo.org.br

The Archdiocese of São Paulo (Latin: Archidioecesis Sancti Pauli in Brasilia) is a Latin Metropolitan Archbishopric of the Roman Catholic Church in Brazil.

The Archdiocese is currently headed by Odilo Scherer since his appointment by Pope Benedict XVI on 21 March 2007, an appointment that ended almost four decades of Franciscan leadership in the archdiocese: both predecessors, Cardinals Paulo Evaristo Arns and Cláudio Hummes, belonged to that Order.

Its cathedral episcopal see, the Catedral Metropolitana Nossa Senhora da Assunção e São Paulo, in the metropolis São Paulo, was dedicated to the Assumption of Mary on September 5, 1964. The city also has three minor basilicas : Basílica de Nossa Senhora da Assunção, Basílica de Nossa Senhora do Carmo (both also Marian) and Basílica do Santíssimo Sacramento (dedicated to the Hly Sacrament).

History

• The Diocese of São Paulo was erected by Pope Benedict XIV on 6 December 1745, on vast territory split off from the then Diocese of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro.
• It lost territories on April 27, 1892 to establish the Diocese of Curitiba and on August 9, 1907 to establish the Diocese of Campanha.
• It became a Metropolitan Archdiocese on June 7, 1908, having lost more territories to establish the Dioceses of Botucatu, Campinas, Ribeirão Preto, São Carlos do Pinhal and Taubaté.
• It lost further territories to establish more Dioceses : Sorocaba Santos, Bragança Paulista, Santo André, Metropolitan Aparecida, Diocese of Mogi das Cruzes, Jundiaí, Campo Limpo, Osasco, Santo Amaro and São Miguel Paulista.
• It enjoyed papal visits from Pope John Paul II in July 1980 and Pope Benedict XVI in May 2007.

Ordinaries

Province

Its ecclesiastical province comprises the Metropolitan's own Archdiocese and these Suffragan bishoprics, mostly Latin too, but also a few Eastern Catholic, notably Byzantine Rite :

• Diocese of Campo Limpo
• Diocese of Guarulhos
• Diocese of Mogi das Cruzes
• Diocese of Osasco
• Diocese of Santo Amaro
• Diocese of Santo André
• Diocese of Santos
• Diocese of São Miguel Paulista
• Maronite Eparchy of Nossa Senhora do Líbano em São Paulo
• Eparchy of Nossa Senhora do Paraíso em São Paulo

See also

• List of Roman Catholic dioceses in Brazil

References

Sources and external links

•  Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "São Paulo". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
• GCatholic.org with incumbent biography links
• Catholic Hierarchy

Coordinates: 23°33′04″S 46°38′04″W / 23.55111°S 46.63444°W / -23.55111; -46.63444