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The Archdiocese of Londrina ( la, Archidioecesis Londrinensis) is a
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of the
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, southern
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. Its
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is Catedral Metropolitana Sagrado Coração de Jesus, dedicated to the
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, in the
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of
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.


History

* February 1, 1956: Established as Diocese of Londrina on territory split off from the
Diocese of Jacarezinho The Roman Catholic Diocese of Jacarezinho ( la, Dioecesis Iacarezinhoënsis) is a diocese in the city of Jacarezinho, Paraná, Jacarezinho in the Ecclesiastical province of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Londrina, Londrina in Brazil. History * Ma ...
* Lost territory on 1964.11.28 to establish Diocese of Apucarana, now its suffragan * October 31, 1970: Promoted as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Londrina


Ecclesiastical province

The Metropolitan has the following
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sees : *
Roman Catholic Diocese of Apucarana The Roman Catholic Diocese of Apucarana ( la, Dioecesis Apucaranensis) is a diocese located in the city of Apucarana in the Ecclesiastical province of Londrina in Brazil. History * November 28, 1964: Established as Diocese of Apucarana from the ...
, its daughter *
Roman Catholic Diocese of Cornélio Procópio The Roman Catholic Diocese of Cornélio Procópio ( la, Dioecesis Procopiensis) is a diocese located in the city of Cornélio Procópio in the Ecclesiastical province of Londrina in Brazil. History * May 26, 1973: Established as Diocese of Corn ...
*
Roman Catholic Diocese of Jacarezinho The Roman Catholic Diocese of Jacarezinho ( la, Dioecesis Iacarezinhoënsis) is a diocese in the city of Jacarezinho in the Ecclesiastical province of Londrina in Brazil. History * May 10, 1926: Established as Diocese of Jacarezinho from the D ...


Statistics

, it pastorally served 728,000 Catholics (73.4% of 992,000 total) on 6,714 km² in 76 parishes and 245 missions with 146 priests (75 diocesan, 71 religious), 59 deacons, 383 lay religious (145 brothers, 238 sisters) and 8 seminarians.


Ordinaries

;''Suffragan Bishop of Londrina'' * Geraldo Fernandes Bijos,
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(C.M.F.) (16 November 1956 – 31 October 1970 ''see below'') ;''Metropolitan Archbishops of Londrina'' * Geraldo Fernandes Bijos, C.M.F. (''see above'' 31 October 1970 – 28 March death 1982), also Vice-President of National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (1974 – 1979) ** Auxiliary Bishop: Antônio Agostinho Marochi (1973.09.27 – 1976.02.02),
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of Thabraca (1973.09.27 – 1976.02.02); later Bishop of Presidente Prudente (Brazil) (1976.02.02 – 2002.02.20) ** Auxiliary Bishop: Luiz Colussi (1978.01.03 – 1980.03.28),
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of
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(1978.01.03 – 1980.03.28); next
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of Lins (Brazil) (1980.03.28 – 1980.10.11), succeeding as Bishop of Lins (1980.10.11 – 1983.12.05), Bishop of
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(Brazil) (1983.12.05 – death 1996.12.04) *
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, (4 October 1982 – 16 September 1991); previously Bishop of
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(Brazil) (1978.05.05 – 1982.10.04); later Secretary of
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(1991.09.16 – 1999.01.13), Second Vice-President of Latin American Episcopal Council (1999 – 2003), Metropolitan Archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia (Brazil) (1999.01.13 – 2011.01.12), created
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– ...), President of National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (2003.05 – 2007.05) *
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(11 March 1992 – retired 10 May 2006), died 2017; previously Titular Bishop of
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(1973.06.14 – 1986.10.24) as Auxiliary Bishop of
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(Brazil) (1973.06.14 – 1986.10.24), Bishop of
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(Brazil) (1986.10.24 – 1992.03.11) ** Auxiliary Bishop: Vicente Costa (born
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of
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(1998.07.01 – 2002.10.09); next Bishop of
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(Brazil) (2002.10.09 – 2009.12.30), Bishop of
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(Brazil) (2009.12.30 – ...) ** Auxiliary Bishop: José Lanza Neto (2004.06.23 – 2007.06.13), Titular Bishop of Mades (2004.06.23 – 2007.06.13); later Bishop of
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(Brazil) (2007.06.13 – ...) *
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(10 May 2006 – 16 November 2016), previously Bishop of
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(Brazil) (1994.03.09 – 2006.05.10); next Metropolitan Archbishop of
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(Brazil) (2016.11.16 – ...) *
Geremias Steinmetz Geremias Steinmetz (born 26 February 1965) is a Brazilian prelate of the Catholic Church who has been Archbishop of Londrina since 2017. He was Bishop of Paranavaí from 2011 to 2017. Early years Geremias Steinmetz was born in Sulina, Paraná, ...
(14 June 2017 – ...), previously Bishop of
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(Brazil) (2011.01.05 – 2017.06.14).


See also

*
List of Catholic dioceses in Brazil This list of Catholic dioceses and archdioceses of Brazil which includes both the dioceses of the Latin Church, which employ the Latin liturgical rites, and various other dioceses, primarily the eparchies of the Eastern Catholic Churches, which em ...


Sources


GCatholic.org, with Google map - data for all sections

Archdiocese website (Portuguese)


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Religious organizations established in 1956 Religion is usually defined as a social-cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relates humanity to supernatural, tra ...
Roman Catholic dioceses and prelatures established in the 20th century