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The Ordinariate of Brazil for the faithful of the Eastern rite or Brazil of the Eastern Rite (
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: Ordinariato para os Fiéis de Ritos Orientais no Brasil) is an
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diocese
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History
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-like structure of the
Catholic Church
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) for the
Eastern Catholics
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in
Brazil
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without proper jurisdiction of their own
particular church
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sui iuris
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It is immediately
exempt to the
Holy See
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and its
Roman Congregation for the Oriental Churches
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, not part of any
ecclesiastical province
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. The ordinariate is headquartered Rua Cosme Velho 470, 20241-090
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a b ...
, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil and currently governed by
Walmor Oliveira de Azevedo
Walmor Oliveira de Azevedo (born 26 April 1954) is a prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as auxiliary bishop of São Salvador da Bahia from 1998 till 2004, when he became archbishop of Belo Horizonte. In 2010 he also became bishop ...
, (Latin) Metropolitan Archbishop of Belo Horizonte, but not vested in a particular see.
History
The Ordinariate was erected on 14 November 1951 with the papal decree ''Cum fidelium'' of the
Congregation for the Oriental Churches
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, which gave effect to a decision ex audientia of
Pope Pius XII
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took on 26 October 1950, as Ordinariato para os Fiéis de Ritos Orientais no Brasil.
The same decree appointed the archbishop of Rio de Janeiro, Jaime de Barros Câmara, as its first
ordinary.
On April 13, 1952 Barros Câmara inaugurated the ordinariate, appointed Francisco Nogueira Bessa as General Secretary of the same and created a system of general vicariates for the 3 major communities, each with its general guard: Elias Gorayeb for the Maronites, Archimandrite
Elias Coueter Elias Coueter (born 15 August 1896 in Damascus, Syria, - died on 16 June 1985) was bishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church and first eparch of the Melkite Greek Catholic Eparchy of Nossa Senhora do Paraíso em São Paulo for all Melkites in Br ...
for the Greek Melkites and Clemente Preima for the Ukrainians.
Since the establishment of the ordinariate, several Eastern Catholic churches have erected proper ecclesiastical jurisdictions within Brazil, with members now falling under these new jurisdictions:
* On 30 May 1962 for the faithful of the
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
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was erected an
Apostolic Exarchate
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(today
Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of São João Batista em Curitiba),
** which also got a suffragan, the
Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Imaculada Conceição in Prudentópolis
* On 29 November 1971 were erected
** the
Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Our Lady of Lebanon of São Paulo
The Eparchy of Our Lady of Lebanon of São Paulo ( pt, Eparquia Nossa Senhora do Líbano em São Paulo; la, Eparchia Dominae Nostrae Libanensis Sancti Pauli Maronitarum) is a Maronite Church ecclesiastical territory or eparchy of the Catholic Chu ...
for the faithful of the
Maronite Church
The Maronite Church is an Eastern Catholic ''sui iuris'' particular church in full communion with the pope and the worldwide Catholic Church, with self-governance under the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches. The current head of the Maro ...
(
Antiochene Rite
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Liturgies in the Antiochene Rite
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for the
Melkite Greek Catholic Church
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(a
Byzantine Rite
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).
* On 3 July 1981 was erected
** the
Armenian Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Latin America and Mexico, with cathedral see in São Paulo; also covering Mexico and Uruguay (with co-cathedral in Montevideo).
Territory and statistics
The ordinariate includes all the faithful of the eastern rite of Brazil without their own jurisdiction. Its seat was the city of Rio de Janeiro, but its current headquarters is the city of Belo Horizonte, because since 2010 its ordinary is the metropolitan archbishop of Belo Horizonte Walmor Oliveira de Azevedo. Previously, the previous 3 ordinary were archbishops of Rio de Janeiro and the headquarters was in this city.
As per 1998 it pastorally served 10,000 baptized Eastern Catholic Brazilians in 4 parishes with 5 priests (2 diocesan, 3 religious) and 3 lay religious brothers.
Parishes
At present it only attends Syriac Catholic faithful, who have a parish, but the small communities of Italian-Albanian and Russian faithful dispersed and the faithful of other rites are insignificant in number and dispersed.
Although the 2016 Pontifical Yearbook mentions the existence of 4 parishes in the Ordinariate, but there is only one Eastern Catholic parish in Belo Horizonte, known as Igreja do Sagrado Coração de Jesus dos Siríacos Católicos, whose parish priest, George Rateb Massis, is the Syriac Catholic vicar of the ordinariate.
The Capela Nossa Senhora da Anunciação of
Ipiranga in
São Paulo
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belonged since 1954 to the Ordinariate as a Russian Catholic mission, but after the death in 2005 of its parish priest, João Stoisser, its few remnant faithful passed in 2013 to be part of the Moscow Patriarchate of the
Russian Orthodox Church
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together with the chapel. A small community of Italo-Albanian Byzantine rite used the Igreja de Nossa Senhora Aparecida
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Ordinaries
(all Roman Rite
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;''Ordinaries of Brazil of the Eastern Rite''
* Jaime de Barros Câmara
Jaime de Barros Câmara (July 3, 1894–February 18, 1971) was a Brazilian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro from 1943 to 1971, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1946 ...
(November 14, 1951 – February 18, 1971 deceased), while Metropolitan Archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a b ...
(Brazil) (1943.07.03 – 1971.02.18), created Cardinal-Priest
A cardinal ( la, Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae cardinalis, literally 'cardinal of the Holy Roman Church') is a senior member of the clergy of the Catholic Church. Cardinals are created by the ruling pope and typically hold the title for life. Col ...
of Ss. Bonifacio ed Alessio
The Basilica dei Santi Bonifacio e(d) Alessio is a basilica, rectory church served by the Somaschans, and titular church for a cardinal-priest on the Aventine Hill in the third prefecture of central Rome, Italy.
It is dedicated to Saint Bonifac ...
(1946.02.22 – 1971.02.18), Military Vicar of Brazil
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(1950.11.06 – 1963.11.09), President of National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (1958–1964)
** Auxiliary Bishop Elias Coueter Elias Coueter (born 15 August 1896 in Damascus, Syria, - died on 16 June 1985) was bishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church and first eparch of the Melkite Greek Catholic Eparchy of Nossa Senhora do Paraíso em São Paulo for all Melkites in Br ...
(1960.11.25 – 1971.11.29)
** Auxiliary Bishop José Romão Martenetz
José Romão Martenetz (born ''Roman Martynets''; uk, Йосиф (Роман) Мартинець) (7 February 1903, Lviv, present Ukraine – 23 February 1989, Curitiba, Brazil) was a bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of São João Batista ...
, O.S.B.M.
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(1958.05.10 – 1962.05.30)
** Auxiliary Bishop João Chedid João Chedid, OMM (18 February 1914 – 31 July 1991) was the first Maronite Bishop of the Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Our Lady of Lebanon of São Paulo in Brazil.
Life
Chedid was born in Kherbet-Kanafar, Lebanon. On 20 December 1941 he was orda ...
, O.M.M. (1956.05.04 – 1971.11.29) (later Archbishop)
* Eugênio Sales
Eugênio de Araújo Sales (8 November 1920 – 9 July 2012) was a cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church, having been elevated by Pope Paul VI on 28 April 1969. He served as archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro for thirty years unti ...
(July 22, 1972 – October 3, 2001 withdrawn), while Cardinal-Priest of S. Gregorio VII
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(1969.04.30 – death 2012.07.09), Metropolitan Archbishop of above São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro (1971.03.13 – 2001.07.25), became Protopriest of College of Cardinals
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(2009.02.16 – 2012.07.09)
* Eusébio Scheid
Eusébio Oscar Scheid S.C.J. (8 December 1932 – 13 January 2021) was a Brazilian prelate of the Catholic Church who was Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro from 2001 to 2009. He was raised to the rank of cardinal in 2003. He was previously Bisho ...
, SCI (October 3, 2001 – July 28, 2010 resigned), while Metropolitan Archbishop of above São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro (2001.07.25 – retired 2009.02.27), created Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Bonifacio ed Alessio
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(2003.10.21 004.06.14– ...)
* Walmor Oliveira de Azevedo
Walmor Oliveira de Azevedo (born 26 April 1954) is a prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as auxiliary bishop of São Salvador da Bahia from 1998 till 2004, when he became archbishop of Belo Horizonte. In 2010 he also became bishop ...
, (28 July 2010 – ...), while Metropolitan Archbishop of Belo Horizonte
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(Brazil) (2004.01.28 – ...).
Auxiliary bishops
*José Romão Martenetz
José Romão Martenetz (born ''Roman Martynets''; uk, Йосиф (Роман) Мартинець) (7 February 1903, Lviv, present Ukraine – 23 February 1989, Curitiba, Brazil) was a bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of São João Batista ...
, O.S.B.M. (1958-1962), appointed Apostolic Exarch of Brazil
*Elias Coueter Elias Coueter (born 15 August 1896 in Damascus, Syria, - died on 16 June 1985) was bishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church and first eparch of the Melkite Greek Catholic Eparchy of Nossa Senhora do Paraíso em São Paulo for all Melkites in Br ...
(1960-1971), appointed Bishop of Nossa Senhora do Paraíso em São Paulo (Melkite Greek), Sao Paulo
*Francis Mansour Zayek
Archbishop Francis Mansour Zayek (Arabic: فرنسيس منصور الزايك ; born October 18, 1920, Manzanillo, Cuba – died on September 14, 2010) was a prelate of the Maronite Church. He was the founding eparch of the Maronite Catholic Ep ...
(1962-1966), appointed Bishop of United States of America (Maronite)
* João (Jean) Chedid, O.M.M. (1968-1971), appointed Bishop of Nossa Senhora do Líbano em São Paulo (Maronite), Sao Paulo
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 e ...
References
External links
GCatholic, with Google map - data for all sections
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Eastern Catholicism in Brazil
Ordinariates for Eastern Catholic faithful
Christian organizations established in 1951
Roman Catholic dioceses in Brazil
1951 establishments in Brazil