The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of São Luís do Maranhão ( la, Archidioecesis Sancti Ludovici in Maragnano) is a Latin

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. Its

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is a

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(Minor): Catedral Metropolitana Nossa Senhora da Vitória Catedral Metropolitana Nossa Senhora da Vitória. It is located in the city of São Luís do Maranhão.

History

* Established on 30 August 1677 as Diocese of São Luís do Maranhão, on territory split off from the Diocese of Olinda * Lost territory pn 4 March 1720 to establish Diocese of

Belém do Pará 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 ...

* Lost territory on 10 February 1902 to establish Diocese of Piaui * 2 December 1921: Promoted as Archdiocese of São Luís do Maranhão * 10 February 1922: Promoted as Metropolitan Archdiocese of São Luís do Maranhão, having lost territory to establish the then Territorial Prelature of São José do Grajaú (now suffragan diocese of Grajau) * Lost territory on 1939.07.22 to establish suffragan Diocese of Caxias do Maranhão and Territorial Prelature of Pinheiro (now a suffragan diocese) * Lost territory on 1962.10.30 to establish suffragan Diocese of Viana * Lost territory on 1968.06.22 to establish suffragan Diocese of

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* Lost territory on 1971.09.14 to establish suffragan Diocese of Brejo * Lost territory on 1977.08.26 to establish suffragan Diocese of

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* It enjoyed a papal visit from

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in October 1991.

Bishops

''(all

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Episcopal ordinaries

;''Suffragan Bishops of São Luís do Maranhão'' * Fr. Antônio de Santa Maria (1677 – death 1677 ''not possessed)'' * Gregório dos Anjos, ? (C.S.J.) (1677.08.30 – death 1689.05.11), previously Bishop of

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(Malaysia) (? – 1677.08.30 ''not possessed)'' * Francisco de Lima,

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O. Carm. (1691.12.19 – 1695.08.22), later Bishop of

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(Brazil) (1695.08.22 – death 1704.04.29) * Timóteo do Sacramento,

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(O.S.P.) (1696.12.17 – retired 1700), previously Bishop of

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(São Tomé and Príncipe) (1693.01.02 – 1696.12.17) * José Delgarte, Trinitarians (O.SS.T.) (1716.10.05 – death 1724.12.23) * Manoel da Cruz Nogueira,

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(O. Cist.) (1738.09.03 – 1745.12.15), later Bishop of

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(Brazil) (1745.12.15 – 1764.01.03) * Francisco de São Tiago, Friars Minor (O.F.M.) (1745.12.15 – death 1752.12.12) * Antônio de São José,

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(O.S.A.) (1756.07.19 – 1778.07.20) later Metropolitan Archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia (Brazil) (1778.07.20 – death 1779.08.09) * Jacinto Carlos da Silveira (1779.03.01 – retired 1780.04.29) * José do Menino Jesus,

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(O.C.D.) (1780.09.18 – 1783.07.18), later Bishop of

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(Portugal) (1783.07.18 – death 1791.01.14) * Antônio de Pádua e Belas, O.F.M. (1783.07.18 – retired 1794.08.28) * Joaquim Ferreira de Carvalho (1795.06.01 – death 1801.04.26) * Luiz de Brito Homem (1802.05.24 – death 1813.12.10), previously Bishop of São Paulo de Loanda (Angola) (1791.12.17 – 1802.05.24) *

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, O.F.M. (1819.08.23 – 1824.05.03), previously

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of Territorial Prelature of Mozambique (Mozambique) (1811.12.17 – 1819.08.23) &

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of Leontopolis in Bithynia (1815.09.04 – 1819.08.23); later Bishop of

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(Portugal) (1824.05.03 – death 1851.08.31) * Marcos Antônio de Souza (1827.06.25 – death 1842.11.29) * Carlos de São José e Souza, O.C.D. (1844.01.22 – death 1850.04.03) * Manoel Joaquim da Silveira (1851.09.05 – 1861.01.05), later Metropolitan Archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia (Brazil) (1861.01.05 – death 1874.06.23) * Luiz da Conceição Saraiva, O.S.B. (1861.07.22 – death 1876.04.26) * Antônio Cândido Alvarenga (1877.09.21 – 1898.11.28), later Bishop of

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(Brazil) (1898.11.28 – 1903.04.01) *''

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Fr. Luis de Salles Pessoa (1898 – death 1898)'' * Antônio Xisto Albano (1901.03.23 – 1905.12.14), emeritate as

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(1905.12.14 – death 1917.02.21) *''

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Santino Maria da Silva Coutinho (1906.09.09 – 1906.12.06), later Metropolitan Archbishop of

(Brazil) (1906.12.06 – 1923.01.19), Metropolitan Archbishop of

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(Brazil) (1923.01.19 – 1939.01.10)'' * Francisco de Paula Silva,

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(C.M.) (1907.04.18 – death 1918.06.04) * Helvécio Gomes de Oliveira, S.D.B. (1918.06.18 – 1921.12.02 ''see below''), previously Bishop of

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(Brazil) (1918.02.15 – 1918.06.18) ;'' Archbishop of São Luís do Maranhão'' * Helvécio Gomes de Oliveira,

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(''see above'' 1921.12.02 – 1922.02.10) ;''Metropolitan Archbishops of São Luís do Maranhão'' * Octaviano Pereira de Albuquerque (1922.10.27 – 1935.12.16), previously Bishop of Piaui (Brazil) (1914.04.02 – 1922.10.27); later

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of Campos (Brazil) (1935.12.16 – death 1949.01.03) *

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(1935.12.19 – 1944.08.13), previously Titular Bishop of

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(1932.07.29 – 1935.12.19) & Auxiliary Bishop of

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(Brazil) (1932.07.29 – 1935.12.19); later Metropolitan Archbishop of

(Brazil) (1944.08.13 – 1964.04.18), created

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of S. Pancrazio (1946.02.22 – 1982.09.18), also President of National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (1952 – 1958),

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(Brazil) (1958.04.19 – 1964.04.18), succeeded as Metropolitan Archbishop of Aparecida (1964.04.18 – death 1982.09.18), also

of Lorena (Brazil) (1970 – 1971.11.03),

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(1977.08.02 – 1982.09.18) * Adalberto Accioli Sobral (1947.01.18 – death 1951.05.24), previously Bishop of

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(Brazil) (1927.04.22 – 1934.01.13), Bishop of Pesqueira (Brazil) (1934.01.13 – 1947.01.18) *

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(1951.09.04 – 1963.05.10), previously Bishop of

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(Brazil) (1941.03.15 – 1951.09.04); later Metropolitan Archbishop of

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(Brazil) (1963.05.10 – retired 1973.03.26) * João José da Mota e Albuquerque (1964.04.28 – retired 1984.03.20), previously Bishop of Afogados da Ingazeira (Brazil) (1957.01.04 – 1961.02.28), Bishop of Sobral (Brazil) (1961.02.28 – 1964.04.28) * Paulo Eduardo Andrade Ponte (1984.03.20 – retired 2005.09.21), also Vice-President of National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (1987 – 1991); previously Bishop of

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(Brazil) (1971.06.25 – 1984.03.20) * José Belisário da Silva, O.F.M. (2005.09.21 – ...), also Vice-President of National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (2011.05.10 – 2015.04.20), Second Vice-President of Latin American Episcopal Council (2015.05.13 – ...); previously Bishop of

(Brazil) (1999.12.01 – 2005.09.21)

Auxiliary bishops

* Otàvio Barbosa Aguiar (1954-1956), appointed Bishop of Campina Grande, Paraiba * Antônio Batista Fragoso (1957-1964), appointed Bishop of Crateús, Ceara *

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(1966-1974), appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Fortaleza, Ceara * Xavier Gilles de Maupeou d’Ableiges (1995-1998), appointed Bishop of Viana, Maranhão * Geraldo Dantas de Andrade, S.C.I. (1998-2010) *

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, C.M. (2010-2013), appointed Bishop of Caraguatatuba, Sao Paulo * Esmeraldo Barreto de Farias, Ist. del Prado (2015-2020), appointed Bishop of Araçuaí, Minas Gerais

Other priest of this diocese who became bishop

* Benedito Araújo, appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Guajará-Mirim, Rondonia in 2011

Province

Its

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comprises the Metropolitan's own

and the following

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dioceses: * Roman Catholic Diocese of Bacabal *

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* Roman Catholic Diocese of Brejo * Roman Catholic Diocese of Carolina * Roman Catholic Diocese of Caxias do Maranhão * Roman Catholic Diocese of Coroatá * Roman Catholic Diocese of Grajaú *

Roman Catholic Diocese of Imperatriz The Roman Catholic Diocese of Imperatriz ( la, Dioecesis Imperatricis) is a suffragan Latin diocese in the Ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan of São Luís do Maranhão in northeastern Brazil. Its cathedral episcopal see is Catedral No ...

* Roman Catholic Diocese of Pinheiro * Roman Catholic Diocese of Viana, Brazil * Roman Catholic Diocese of Zé Doca

Source and external links

GCatholic.org with incumbent biography links

Archdiocese website (Portuguese)
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