The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Belém do Pará ( la, Archidioecesis Belemensis de Pará) is an

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located in the city of

Belém Belém (; Portuguese for Bethlehem; initially called Nossa Senhora de Belém do Grão-Pará, in English Our Lady of Bethlehem of Great Pará) often called Belém of Pará, is a Brazilian city, capital and largest city of the state of Pará in ...

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. It covers and is organized into 80 parishes. The Archdiocese covers the municipalities of

, Ananindeua, Benevides, Marituba, and Santa Bárbara do Pará.

History

* March 4, 1720: Established as Diocese of Belém do Pará from Diocese of São Luís do Maranhão * May 1, 1906: Promoted as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Belém do Pará

Special churches

*Minor Basilicas: ** Basilica of Our Lady of Nazareth of Exile (''Basílica Santuário Nossa Senhora de Nazaré'') *Cathedrals **

Our Lady of the Conception Cathedral, Abaetetuba The Our Lady of the Conception Cathedral ( pt, Catedral Nossa Senhora da Conceição ) also called Abaetetuba Cathedral Is the main Catholic church of Abaetetuba, a city of the state of Pará, which is on the south bank of the Maratauíra river in ...

(''Catedral Nossa Senhora da Conceição'') **

Our Lady of Grace Cathedral, Belém The Our Lady of Grace Cathedral ( pt, Catedral Nossa Senhora das Graças) also called Catedral Nossa Senhora de Belém. It is the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Belém do Pará and is located in the old quarter of the city in Belém in ...

(''Catedral Nossa Senhora das Graças'') *Historic churches ** Church of Saint John the Baptist (''Igreja de São João Batista'') ** Church of Our Lady of the Rosary (''Igreja de Nossa Senhora do Rosário'')

Bishops

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)

Episcopal ordinaries

Bishops of Belém do Pará

# Bartolomeu do Pilar, OCarm (4 March 1720 – 9 April 1733) # Guilherme de São José Antonio de Aranha (3 September 1738 – 18 May 1748) # Miguel de Bulhões e Souza, OP (18 May 1748 – 24 March 1760) # João de São José de Queiroz da Silveira, OSB (24 March 1760 – 25 November 1763) # João Evangelista Pereira da Silva, TOR (17 June 1771 – 14 May 1782) # Cayetano Da Annunciação Brandão, TOR (16 December 1782 – 29 March 1790), appointed Archbishop of Braga # Manoel de Almeida de Carvalho (21 June 1790 – 30 June 1818) # Romualdo de Souza Coelho (28 August 1820 – 15 February 1841) # José Affonso de Moraes Torres, CM (22 January 1844 – 24 September 1857) # Antônio de Macedo Costa (17 December 1860 – 26 June 1890), appointed Archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia # Jerônimo Tomé da Silva (26 June 1890 – 12 September 1893), appointed Archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia # Antônio Manoel de Castilho Brandão (7 September 1894 – 5 June 1901), Appointed Bishop of Alagôas # Francisco do Rego Maia (5 June 1901 – 3 April 1906) # José Marcondes Homem de Melo (26 April 1906 – 1 May 1906 ''see below'')

Archbishops of Belém do Pará

# José Marcondes Homem de Melo (''see above'' 1 May 1906 – 6 December 1906) # Santino Maria da Silva Coutinho (6 December 1906 – 19 January 1923), appointed Archbishop of Maceió, Alagoas # João Irineu Joffily (27 March 1924 – 1 May 1931) #

Antônio de Almeida Lustosa Antônio de Almeida Lustosa (11 February 1886 - 14 August 1974) was a Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate and professed member from the Salesians of Don Bosco. Lustosa served in two dioceses and two archdioceses in his career where he was reputed ...

, SDB (10 July 1931 – 19 July 1941), appointed Archbishop of Fortaleza, Ceara #

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 b ...

(15 September 1941 – 3 July 1943), appointed Archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro (Cardinal in 1946) # Mário de Miranda Villas-Boas (10 September 1944 – 23 October 1956), appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia # Alberto Gaudêncio Ramos (9 May 1957 – 4 July 1990) # Vicente Joaquim Zico, CM (4 July 1990 – 13 October 2004) #

Orani João Tempesta Orani João Tempesta (; born on 23 June 1950) is a Brazilian prelate of the Catholic Church who has been archbishop of Rio de Janeiro since 2009. He was previously bishop of São José do Rio Preto from 1997 to 2004 and archbishop of Belém do ...

, OCist (13 October 2004 – 19 April 2009), appointed Archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro (Cardinal in 2014) #

Alberto Taveira Corrêa Alberto Taveira Corrêa (born 26 May 1950) is a Brazilian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as auxiliary bishop of Brasília from 1991 till 1996, when he became archbishop of Palmas. In 2009 he became archbishop of Belém do Par� ...

(30 December 2009 - )

Coadjutor Bishops

* Miguel de Bulhões e Souza, O.P. (1748) * Vicente Joaquim Zico, C.M. (1980-1990)

Auxiliary Bishops

* Milton Corrêa Pereira (1962-1967), appointed Bishop of Garanhuns, Pernambuco * Tadeu Henrique (Jude) Prost, O.F.M. (1962-1992) *

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, O.P. (1975-1976), appointed Coadjutor Prelate of Marabá, Para *

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(1996-2004), appointed Bishop of Castanhal, Para *

Teodoro Mendes Tavares Teodoro Mendes Tavares (born 7 January 1964) is a Cape Verdean clergyman and the first and only Cape Verdean-born bishop of any diocese in Brazil, he is currently the third Catholic bishop of Ponta de Pedras, covering the Marajó Archipelago in Pa ...

, C.S.Sp. (2011-2015), appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Ponta de Pedras, Para * Irineu Roman, C.S.I. (2014-2019), appointed Archbishop of Santarém, Para * Antônio de Assis Ribeiro, S.D.B. (2017-)

Other priest of this diocese who became bishop

* Alberto Gaudêncio Ramos, appointed Bishop of Amazonas in 1948; later returned here as Archbishop

Suffragan dioceses

* Diocese of Abaetetuba *

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* Diocese of Cametá, formerly Territorial Prelature of Cametá * Diocese of Castanhal * Diocese of Macapá * Diocese of Marabá * Diocese of Ponta de Pedras * Diocese of Santíssima Conceição do Araguaia * Territorial Prelature of Marajó

Sources

GCatholic.org

Diocese website
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