The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Olinda and Recife ( la, Archidioecesis Olindensis et Recifensis) is a Latin metropolitan

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in northeast

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Pernambuco Pernambuco () is a state of Brazil, located in the Northeast region of the country. With an estimated population of 9.6 million people as of 2020, making it seventh-most populous state of Brazil and with around 98,148 km², being the 19 ...

state.

Special churches

* Its

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archiepiscopal see is a

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(Minor): Catedral Metropolitana São Salvador do Mundo, in

Olinda Olinda () is a historic city in Pernambuco, Brazil, in the Northeast Region, Brazil, Northeast Region. It is located on the country's northeastern Atlantic Ocean coast, in the Recife metropolitan area, Metropolitan Region of Recife, the state capi ...

* Its Co-Cathedral is São Pedro dos Clérigos, dedicated to Saint Peter of Clerics, in

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* Further it has

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s : ** Basílica Abacial do Mosteiro de São Bento de Olinda, in Olinda ** Basílica de Nossa Senhora do Carmo, in Recife ** Basílica Nossa Senhora de Penha,

** Basílica Sagrado Coração de Jesus, Recife ** Basílica Santuário de Nossa Senhora Auxiliadora, in

Jaboatão dos Guararapes Jaboatão dos Guararapes () is a city in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil. It is a part of the Recife metro area. The population was 706,867 according to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) in 2020, making it the second most- ...

* Historic churches ** Capela Dourada, Recife ** Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Conceição dos Militares, Recife ** Igreja dos Santos Cosme e Damião, Igarassu ** Igreja e Convento de Santo Antônio, Igarassu

History

* Established on 17 July 1614 as

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of Pernambuco, on territory split off from the then

Diocese of São Salvador da Bahia de Todos os Santos In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop. History In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associat ...

* Promoted on 11 November 1676 and renamed after its see as Diocese of Olinda Concatedral de São Pedro dos Clérigos - Recife, Pernambuco, Brasil

Largo e Igreja do Corpo Santo em 1863 — Litografia de Luis Schlappriz

* Lost territories repeatedly: on 1677.08.30 to establish

Diocese of São Luís do Maranhão In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop. History In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associate ...

, on 1854.06.06 to establish

Diocese of Ceará The Archdiocese of Fortaleza ( la, Archidioecesis Fortalexiensis) is an archdiocese located in the city of Fortaleza in Brazil. History On June 6, 1854, it was established by Pope Pius IX, as the Diocese of Ceará from the Diocese of Olinda. Fo ...

, on 1892.04.27 to establish

Diocese of Paraiba In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop. History In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associate ...

and on 1900.07.02 to establish

Diocese of Alagôas In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop. History In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associate ...

* Promoted on 5 December 1910 as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Olinda, having lost territory to establish the

Diocese of Floresta The Roman Catholic Diocese of Floresta ( la, Dioecesis Florestensis) is a diocese located in the city of Floresta in the Ecclesiastical province of Olinda e Recife in Brazil. History * February 15, 1964: Established as Diocese of Floresta from ...

, its suffragan * Renamed on 26 July 1918 as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Olinda e Recife, reflecting its double see * Lost territories repeatedly again : on 1918.08.02 to establish

Diocese of Garanhuns The Roman Catholic Diocese of Garanhuns ( la, Dioecesis Garanhunensis) is a diocese located in the city of Garanhuns in the Ecclesiastical province of Olinda e Recife in Brazil. History * August 2, 1918: Established as Diocese of Garanhuns from ...

and

Diocese of Nazaré In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop. History In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associate ...

, on 1948.08.07 to establish

Diocese of Caruaru The Roman Catholic Diocese of Caruaru ( la, Dioecesis Caruaruensis) is a diocese located in the city of Caruaru in the Ecclesiastical province of Olinda e Recife in Brazil. History * August 7, 1948: Established as Diocese of Caruaru from the Me ...

, and on 1962.01.13 to establish Diocese of Palmares.

Ecclesiastical province

Its

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sees are : *

Roman Catholic Diocese of Afogados da Ingazeira The Roman Catholic Diocese of Afogados da Ingazeira ( la, Dioecesis Afogadensis de Ingazeira) is a diocese located in the city of Afogados da Ingazeira in the Ecclesiastical province of Olinda e Recife in Brazil. History * July 2, 1956: Establis ...

* Roman Catholic Diocese of Caruaru *

Roman Catholic Diocese of Floresta The Roman Catholic Diocese of Floresta ( la, Dioecesis Florestensis) is a diocese located in the city of Floresta in the Ecclesiastical province of Olinda e Recife in Brazil. History * February 15, 1964: Established as Diocese of Floresta from ...

, a daughter *

Roman Catholic Diocese of Garanhuns The Roman Catholic Diocese of Garanhuns ( la, Dioecesis Garanhunensis) is a diocese located in the city of Garanhuns in the Ecclesiastical province of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Olinda e Recife, Olinda e Recife in Brazil. History * August 2, 1 ...

, a daughter *

Roman Catholic Diocese of Nazaré The Roman Catholic Diocese of Nazaré ( la, Dioecesis Nazarensis in Brasilia) is a diocese located in the city of Nazaré da Mata in the Ecclesiastical province of Olinda e Recife in Brazil. History * August 2, 1918: Established as Diocese of ...

, a daughter *

Roman Catholic Diocese of Palmares The Roman Catholic Diocese of Palmares ( la, Dioecesis Palmopolitana) is a diocese located in the city of Palmares, Pernambuco, Palmares in the Ecclesiastical province of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Olinda e Recife, Olinda e Recife in Brazil. H ...

, its junior daughter *

Roman Catholic Diocese of Pesqueira The Roman Catholic Diocese of Pesqueira ( la, Dioecesis Pesqueirensis) is a diocese located in the city of Pesqueira in the Ecclesiastical province of Olinda e Recife in Brazil. History * December 5, 1910: Established as Diocese of Floresta f ...

Roman Catholic Diocese of Petrolina The Diocese of Petrolina ( la, Dioecesis Petrolinensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Souther Brazil. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of O ...

Roman Catholic Diocese of Salgueiro The Roman Catholic Diocese of Salgueiro is a diocese located in the city of Salgueiro in the Ecclesiastical province of Olinda e Recife in Brazil. History * 16 June 2010: Established as Diocese of Salgueiro from the Diocese of Floresta and Dioc ...

Statistics

Igreja do Santíssimo Sacramento de Santo Antônio, Recife (PE)

Vista da nave da Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Conceição dos Militares - Recife-PE

Igreja Madre de Deus - Recife, Pernambuco, Brasil

Convento de São Francisco - Olinda, Pernambuco, Brasil

As per 2014, it pastorally served 3,804,000 Catholics (94.5% of 4,024,000 total) on 4,058 km² in 114 parishes and 689 missions with 277 priests (122 diocesan, 155 religious), 32 deacons, 1,143 lay religious (251 brothers, 892 sisters) with 63 seminarians.

Bishops

(all

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)

Episcopal ordinaries

;''Suffragan Bishops of Olinda'' * Estevão Brioso de Figueiredo (born Portugal) (16 Nov 1676 - 27 Sep 1683), next Bishop of

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(27 Sep 1683 – death 1689.05.20) * '' João Duarte do Sacramento not possessed (1685 - death 1685) * Matias de Figueiredo e Mello (12 May 1687 - death 18 July 1694 ) *

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(Lemos) (born Portugal) (22 August 1695 - death 29 April 1704), previously Bishop of São Luís do Maranhão (Brazil) (1691.12.19 – 22 August 1695) * Manuel Alvares da Costa (born Portugal) (7 June 1706 - 20 Jan 1721), next Bishop of Angra (Portugal) (1721.01.20 – death 1733.01.10) * José de Fialho (born Portugal) (21 Feb 1725 - 3 Sep 1738), next Metropolitan Archbishop of (São Salvador da) Bahia (Brazil) (1738.09.03 – 1741.01.02),

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of Guarda (Portugal) (1741.01.02 – 1741.03.18) * Luiz de Santa Teresa da Cruz Salgado de Castilho (born Portugal) (3 Sep 1738 - death 17 Nov 1757) * Francisco Xavier Aranha (17 Nov 1757 - death 5 Oct 1771), previously Titular Bishop of Thermopylæ (1754.02.11 – 1757.11.17) as Coadjutor Bishop of Olinda (1754.02.11 – 1757.11.17) * Francisco da Assumpção e Brito (born Portugal) (8 March 1773 - 20 Dec 1773), next Metropolitan Archbishop of

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(then

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) (1773.12.20 – retired 1783.06.23), died 1808 * Tomaz da Encarnação da Costa e Lima (18 April 1774 - died 14 Jan 1784) * Diego de Jesus Jardim (14 Feb 1785 - 21 Feb 1794), next Bishop of

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(Portugal) (1794.02.21 – death 1796.05.30) * José Joaquim da Cunha Azeredo Coutinho (12 Sep 1794 - 6 Oct 1806), next Bishop of

(Portugal) (1806.10.06 – death 1821.09.12) * José Maria de Araújo (born Portugal) (6 Oct 1806 - death 21 Sep 1809) * Antônio de São José Bastos (15 March 1815 - death 19 July 1819) * ? Tomaz de Noronha e Brito (1828 – 1829) (23 June 1828 - death 6 March 1829) * ? Tomas Manoel de Noronha e Britto (born Portugal) (23 June 1828 - death 6 March 1829) * João da Purificação Marques Perdigão (28 Feb 1831 - retired 30 April 1864), previously Bishop of

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(India) (1819.12.17 – 1828.06.23); died 1874 :BIOS to ELABORATE * Francisco Cardoso Aires (20 Dec 1867 - 12 May 1870) * Vital Maria Gonçalves de Oliveira (21 May 1871 - 4 July 1878) * José Pereira da Silva Barros (7 Jan 1881 - 25 June 1891), appointed Bishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro * João Fernando Santiago Esberard (Esberrard) (born Spain) (12 May 1891 - 12 Sep 1893), appointed Archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro * Manoel dos Santos Pereira (12 Sep 1893 - 25 April 1900 ) * Luís Raimundo da Silva Brito (23 Feb 1901 - 5 Dec 1910 ''see below'') ;''Metropolitan Archbishops of Olinda'' * Luís Raimundo da Silva Brito (''see above'' 5 Dec 1910- 9 Dec 1915) * Sebastião (Leme) da Silveira Cintra (29 April 1916 - 29 April 1918 ''see below'') ;''Metropolitan Archbishops of Olinda & Recife * Sebastião (Leme) da Silveira Cintra (''see above'' 29 April 1918 - 15 March 1921), appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro; future Cardinal * Miguel de Lima Valverde † (10 Feb 1922 - 7 May 1951) * Antônio de Almeida Moraes Junior † (17 Nov 1951 - 23 April 1960), appointed Archbishop of Niterói, Rio de Janeiro * † (23 April 1960 - 7 March 1964 ) * Helder Pessoa Câmara † (12 March 1964 - 2 April 1985), world-famous liberation theology icon *

José Cardoso Sobrinho José Cardoso Sobrinho (born 30 June 1933, in Caruaru) is the Archbishop Emeritus of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Olinda e Recife in the Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is ...

(2 April 1985 - 16 August 2009) * (16 August 2009 - ...).

Coadjutor bishops

* Coadjutor Bishop: Francisco Xavier Aranha (1754.02.11 – 1757.11.17) * Coadjutor Bishop: João Fernando Santiago Esberard (Esberrard) (1890.06.26 – 1891.05.12); future Archbishop * Coadjutor Archbishop: João Irineu Joffily (1914.08.18 – 1916.05.04), did not succeed to see; appointed Bishop of Amazonas * Coadjutor Archbishop: João Batista Portocarrero Costa (1953.07.03 – 1959.01.06), did not succeed to see

Auxiliary bishops

* Auxiliary Bishop: José Lamartine Soares (1962.11.16 – 1985.04.02), appointed Archbishop of Maceió, Alagoas * Auxiliary Bishop: Hilário Moser (1988.08.17 – 1992.05.27), appointed Bishop of Tubarão, Santa Catarina * Auxiliary Bishop:

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, S.J. (1988.08.17 – 1994.06.15), appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Brasília, Distrito Federal * Auxiliary Bishop: Bishop Fernando Antônio Saburido, O.S.B. (2000.05.31 – 2005.05.18), appointed Bishop of Sobral, Ceara (later returned here as Archbishop)

Other priests of this diocese who became bishops

* Jerónimo Thomé da Silva, appointed Bishop of Belém do Pará in 1890 * Francisco do Rêgo Maia, appointed Bishop of Niterói (Nictheroy) in 1893 *

Augusto Álvaro da Silva Augusto Álvaro da Silva (April 8, 1876 – August 14, 1968) was a Brazilian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia from 1924 until his death in 1968, and was elevated to the cardinalate i ...

, appointed Bishop of Floresta in 1912; future Cardinal * Ricardo Ramos de Castro Vilela, appointed Bishop of Nazaré, Pernambuco in 1919 *

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, appointed Bishop of Garanhuns, Pernambuco in 1919 * José Pereira Alves, appointed Bishop of Natal in 1922

Sources and external links

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

Archdiocese website (Portuguese)
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Special churches

History

Ecclesiastical province

Statistics

Bishops

Episcopal ordinaries

Coadjutor bishops

Auxiliary bishops

Other priests of this diocese who became bishops

See also

Sources and external links