The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Aparecida ( la, Archidioecesis Apparitiopolitana) is an

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located in the city of

Aparecida Aparecida is a Brazilian Municipalities of Brazil, municipality in the state of São Paulo (state), São Paulo. It is located in the fertile valley of the River Paraíba do Sul on the southern (right) bank. It is part of the Metropolitan Region o ...

in Brazil.

History

* 19 April 1958: Established as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Aparecida from the Metropolitan Archdiocese of São Paulo and Diocese of Taubaté

Bishops

Archbishops of Aparecida

* Cardinal

Carlos Carmelo de Vasconcelos Motta Carlos Carmelo Vasconcellos Motta (16 July 1890 – 18 September 1982) was a long-serving cardinal. Until Eugênio de Araújo Sales surpassed him in 2005, he was the longest-serving Brazilian cardinal, and during his cardinalate the Church in Br ...

(1964-1982) * Geraldo María de Morais Penido (1982-1995) * Cardinal

Aloísio Lorscheider Aloísio Leo Arlindo Lorscheider, O.F.M. (8 October 1924 – 23 December 2007) was a Brazilian Roman Catholic cardinal during the 1970s and 1980s. He was known as an advocate of liberation theology in the 1970s and was seen by some observers a ...

, O.F.M. (1995-2004) * Cardinal

Raymundo Damasceno Assis Raymundo Damasceno Assis (; born 15 February 1937) is a Brazilian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was Auxiliary Bishop of Brasília from 1986 to 2004 and Archbishop of Aparecida from 2004 to 2016. Biography Early life and ordination ...

(2004-2016) *

Orlando Brandes Orlando Brandes (born 13 April 1946) is a Brazilian prelate of the Catholic Church who was appointed Archbishop of Aparecida in 2017. He was Bishop of Joinville from 1994 to 2006 and Archbishop of Londrina from 2006 to 2016. Early life Brand ...

(2016–present)

Coadjutor archbishops

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, C.SS.R. (1964-1977); did not succeed to see *

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(1977-1982)

Auxiliary bishop

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, C.SS.R. (2012-2016), appointed Archbishop of Diamantina, Minas Gerais

Suffragan dioceses

* Diocese of Caraguatatuba * Diocese of Lorena * Diocese of São José dos Campos * Diocese of Taubaté

References

Sources

Catholic Hierarchy
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