Roman Catholic Archdiocese of São Paulo

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Archdiocese of São Paulo Archidioecesis Sancti Pauli in Brasilia
Metropolitan Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption and St. Paul
Location
Country	Brazil
Ecclesiastical province	São Paulo
Statistics
Area	655 km2 (253 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics (including non-members)	(as of 2017[1]) 7,669,976 4,984,484 (65%)
Information
Rite	Latin Rite
Established	6 December 1745 (275 years ago)
Cathedral	Catedral Metropolitana Nossa Senhora da Assunção e São Paulo
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Archbishop	Odilo Scherer
Auxiliary Bishops	, R.C.J., elect
Website
www.arquidiocesedesaopaulo.org.br

The Archdiocese of São Paulo (Latin: Archidioecesis Sancti Pauli in Brasilia) is a Latin Metropolitan Archbishopric of the Roman Catholic Church in Brazil.

The Archdiocese is currently headed by Odilo Scherer since his appointment by Pope Benedict XVI on 21 March 2007, an appointment that ended almost four decades of Franciscan leadership in the archdiocese: both predecessors, Cardinals Paulo Evaristo Arns and Cláudio Hummes, belonged to that Order.

Its cathedral episcopal see, the Catedral Metropolitana Nossa Senhora da Assunção e São Paulo, in the metropolis São Paulo, was dedicated to the Assumption of Mary on September 5, 1964. The city also has three minor basilicas : Basílica de Nossa Senhora da Assunção, Basílica de Nossa Senhora do Carmo (both also Marian) and Basílica do Santíssimo Sacramento (dedicated to the Holly Sacrament).

History[]

• The Diocese of São Paulo was erected by Pope Benedict XIV on 6 December 1745, on vast territory split off from the then Diocese of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro.
• It lost territories on April 27, 1892 to establish the Diocese of Curitiba and on August 9, 1907 to establish the Diocese of Campanha.
• It became a Metropolitan Archdiocese on June 7, 1908, having lost more territories to establish the Dioceses of Botucatu, Campinas, Ribeirão Preto, São Carlos do Pinhal and Taubaté.
• It lost further territories to establish more Dioceses : Sorocaba Santos, Bragança Paulista, Santo André, Metropolitan Aparecida, Diocese of Mogi das Cruzes, Jundiaí, Campo Limpo, Osasco, Santo Amaro and São Miguel Paulista.
• It enjoyed papal visits from Pope John Paul II in July 1980 and Pope Benedict XVI in May 2007.

Bishops[]

Ordinaries[]

Bishops of São Paulo

• Bernardo Rodrigues Nogueira (1745–1748 )
• Antônio da Madre de Deus Galvão, O.F.M. (1750–1764)
• Manuel da Ressurreição, O.F.M. (1771–1789)
• Miguel da Madre de Deus da Cruz, O.F.M. (1791–1795), appointed Archbishop of Braga (Portugal)
• Mateus de Abreu Pereira (1795–1824)
• Manuel Joaquim Gonçalves de Andrade (1827–1847)
• Antônio Joaquim de Melo (1851–1861)
• Sebastião Pinto do Rego (1861–1868)
• Lino Deodato Rodrigues de Carvalho (1871–1894)
• Joaquim Arcoverde de Albuquerque Cavalcanti (1894–1897), appointed Archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro (Cardinal in 1905)
• Antônio Cândido Alvarenga (1898–1903
• José de Camargo Barros (1903–1906)
• Leopoldo Duarte e Silva (1906–1908)

Archbishops of São Paulo

• Leopoldo Duarte e Silva (1908–1938)
• (1939–1943)
• Cardinal Carlos Carmelo de Vasconcelos Motta (1944–1964), appointed Archbishop of Aparecida
• Cardinal Agnelo Rossi (1964–1970), appointed Prefect of Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith and later President of Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See
• Cardinal Paulo Evaristo Arns, O.F.M. (1970–1998)
• Cardinal Cláudio Hummes, O.F.M. (1998–2006), appointed Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy
• Cardinal Odilo Scherer (2007–present)

Coadjutor Bishops[]

• Joaquim Arcoverde de Albuquerque Cavalcanti (1892–1894); future Cardinal
• (1957-1966), did not succeed to see; appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Campinas, Sao Paulo

Auxiliary Bishops[]

• José Gaspar d'Afonseca e Silva (1935–1939), appointed Archbishop here
• (1947-1957), appointed Coadjutor here
• (1948-1962), appointed Bishop of Mogi das Cruzes, Sao Paulo
• , C.SS.R. (1955-1964), appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Aparecida, Sao Paulo
• (1955-1964), appointed Bishop of Bauru, Sao Paulo
• (1964-1965), appointed Bishop of Apucarana, Parana in 1965
• , O. Carm. (1965-1966), appointed Bishop of Jundiaí, Sao Paulo
• Paulo Evaristo Arns, O.F.M. (1966-1970), appointed Archbishop here (Cardinal in 1973)
• Bruno Maldaner (1966-1971), appointed Bishop of Frederico Westphalen, Rio Grande do Sul
• José Thurler (1966-1992)
• Lucas Moreira Neves, O.P. (1967-1974), appointed Vice President of the Pontifical Council for the Laity; future Cardinal
• Benedito de Ulhôa Vieira (1971-1978), appointed Archbishop of Uberaba, Minas Gerais
• Angélico Sândalo Bernardino (1974-2000), appointed Bishop of Blumenau, Santa Catarina
• (1974-1981), appointed Bishop of Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro
• , S.V.D. (1974-1999)
• Francisco Manuel Vieira (1974-1989), appointed Bishop of Osasco, Sao Paulo
• (1975-2000), appointed Bishop of Catanduva, Sao Paulo
• , S.J. (1976-1988), appointed Archbishop of Mariana, Minas Gerais
• (1979-2000), appointed Bishop of Jacarezinho, Parana
• Alfredo Ernest Novak, C.SS.R. (1979-1989), appointed Bishop of Paranaguá, Parana
• (1979-1997), appointed Bishop of Santo André, Sao Paulo
• (1982-2000), appointed Bishop of Barretos, Sao Paulo
• (1999-2004), appointed Bishop of Jundiaí, Sao Paulo
• Odilo Pedro Scherer (2001-2007), appointed Archbishop here (Cardinal later in the year)
• (2001-2006), appointed Bishop of Lorena, Sao Paulo
• (2001-2008), appointed Bishop of São Miguel Paulista, Sao Paulo
• (2001-2009), appointed Bishop of Franca, Sao Paulo
• José Benedito Simão (2001-2009), appointed Bishop of Assis, Sao Paulo
• (2003-2005), appointed Bishop of Bragança Paulista, Sao Paulo
• Tomé Ferreira da Silva (2005-2012), appointed Bishop of São José do Rio Preto, Sao Paulo
• Joaquim Justino Carreira (2005-2011), appointed Bishop of Guarulhos, Sao Paulo
• , O.F.M. (2006-2010), appointed Bishop of Umuarama, Parana
• , S.D.B. (2008-2014), appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Santos, Sao Paulo
• (2009-2014), appointed Bishop of Barretos, Sao Paulo
• (2009-2015), appointed Bishop of Paranaguá, Parana
• Júlio Endi Akamine, S.A.C. (2011-2016), appointed Archbishop of Sorocaba, Sao Paulo
• Sérgio de Deus Borges (2012-2019), appointed Bishop of Foz do Iguaçu, Parana
• (2014-)
• (2014-2019), appointed Bishop of Limeira, Sao Paulo
• (2014-)
• (2014-)
• (2016-)
• (2019-)
• (2019-)
• , R.C.J. (2020-

Other priests of this diocese who became bishops[]

• , appointed Bishop of Belém do Pará in 1906
• Francisco de Campos Barreto, appointed Bishop of Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul in 1911
• , appointed Auxiliary Bishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro in 1911; future Cardinal
• , appointed Bishop of Espírito Santo in 1918
• , appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Ribeirão Preto in 1940
• Antônio de Castro Mayer, appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Campos, Rio de Janeiro in 1948
• , appointed Bishop of Bragança Paulista, Sao Paulo in 1971
• Geraldo Majella Agnelo, appointed Bishop of Toledo, Parana in 1978; future Cardinal
• , appointed Bishop of Frederico Westphalen, Rio Grande do Sul in 2008
• José Aparecido Gonçalves de Almeida (priest here, 1986-1989), appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Brasília, Distrito Federal in 2013

Province[]

Its ecclesiastical province comprises the Metropolitan's own Archdiocese and these Suffragan bishoprics, mostly Latin too, but also a few Eastern Catholic, notably Byzantine Rite :

• Diocese of Campo Limpo
• Diocese of Guarulhos
• Diocese of Mogi das Cruzes
• Diocese of Osasco
• Diocese of Santo Amaro
• Diocese of Santo André
• Diocese of Santos
• Diocese of São Miguel Paulista
• Maronite Eparchy of Nossa Senhora do Líbano em São Paulo
• Eparchy of Nossa Senhora do Paraíso em São Paulo

See also[]

• List of Roman Catholic dioceses in Brazil

References[]

Sources and external links[]

• Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "São Paulo" . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
• GCatholic.org with incumbent biography links
• Catholic Hierarchy

Coordinates: 23°33′04″S 46°38′04″W / 23.55111°S 46.63444°W / -23.55111; -46.63444