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Archdiocese of São Paulo
Archidioecesis Sancti Pauli in Brasilia
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Metropolitan Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption and St. Paul
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Location | |
Country | Brazil |
Ecclesiastical province | São Paulo |
Coordinates | 23°33′04″S 46°38′04″W / 23.55111°S 46.63444°W / -23.55111; -46.63444 |
Statistics | |
Area | 655 km2 (253 sq mi) |
Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2017[1]) 7,669,976 4,984,484 (65%) |
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Rite | Latin Rite |
Established | 6 December 1745 (278 years ago) |
Cathedral | Catedral Metropolitana Nossa Senhora da Assunção e São Paulo |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Archbishop | Odilo Scherer |
Auxiliary Bishops | Cicero Alves de França José Benedito Cardoso Rogério Augusto das Neves Carlos Lema Garcia Ângelo Ademir Mezzari Jorge Pierozan Carlos Silva |
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The Archdiocese of São Paulo (Latin: Archidioecesis Sancti Pauli in Brasilia) is a Latin Metropolitan Archbishopric of the Roman Catholic ChurchinBrazil.
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).
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 :