The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Maringá ( la, Archidioecesis Maringaënsis) is an
archdiocese located in the city of
Maringá in Brazil.
History
* February 1, 1956: Established as Diocese of Maringá from the
Diocese of Jacarezinho
* October 16, 1979: Promoted as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Maringá
Leadership
Ordinaries
;Bishops
*Jaime Luiz Coelho (3 December 1956 – 16 October 1979 ''see below'')
;Archbishops
*Jaime Luiz Coelho (''see above'' 16 October 1979 – 7 May 1997)
*
Murilo Sebastião Ramos Krieger
Murilo Sebastião Ramos Krieger, SCJ (born 19 September 1943) is a retired Brazilian prelate of the Catholic Church who was the Archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia and Primate of Brazil from 2011 to 2020. He served as archbishop of Florianópo ...
,
S.C.J. (7 May 1997 – 20 February 2002), appointed, Archbishop of Florianópolis, Santa Catarina
*
João Braz de Aviz
João Braz de Aviz (; born 24 April 1947) is a prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He has served as the prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life since his appointment by Pope Benedict XVI in ...
(17 July 2002 – 18 January 2004), appointed, Archbishop of Brasília, Distrito Federal; future Cardinal
* Anuar Battisti (29 September 2004 – 20 November 2019)
*
Severino Clasen, O.F.M. (1 July 2020 – )
Other priests of this diocese who became bishops
*
Edmar Perón, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of São Paulo in 2009
*
Bruno Elizeu Versari, appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Campo Mourão, Parana in 2017
Suffragan dioceses
*
Diocese of Campo Mourão
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 ...
*
Diocese of Paranavaí
*
Diocese of Umuarama
Sources
GCatholic.org Archdiocese website (Portuguese)
Roman Catholic dioceses in Brazil
Roman Catholic ecclesiastical provinces in Brazil
Christian organizations established in 1956
Roman Catholic dioceses and prelatures established in the 20th century
Maringá
{{Brazil-RC-diocese-stub