Archdiocese of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro
Archidioecesis Sancti Sebastiani Fluminis Ianuarii
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Location | |
Country | Brazil |
Ecclesiastical province | Province of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro |
Statistics | |
Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2017[1]) 6,498,837 3,320,334 (51.1%) |
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Denomination | Catholic |
Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
Rite | Roman Rite |
Established | July 19, 1575 |
Cathedral | Rio de Janeiro Cathedral |
Patron saint | Saint Sebastian (principal) and Saint Anne (secondary) |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Archbishop | Orani João Tempesta OCist |
Auxiliary Bishops | Antônio Augusto Dias Duarte Roque Costa Souza Joel Portella Amado Paulo Alves Romão Juarez Delorto Secco Paulo Celso Dias do Nascimento Zdzisław Stanisław Błaszczyk Célio da Silveira Calixto Filho Antônio Luiz Catelan Ferreira |
Bishops emeritus | Assis Lopes |
Website | |
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The Archdiocese of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro (Latin: Archidioecesis Sancti Sebastiani Fluminis Ianuarii, lit. "Archdiocese of St. Sebastian of Rio de Janeiro") in Brazil was established as a territorial prelature on July 19, 1575. It was elevated to the status of a diocese on November 16, 1676. It was later elevated to a metropolitan archdiocese on April 27, 1892. On May 6, 2003, the territorial abbey of Nossa Senhora do Monserrate do Rio de Janeiro lost its territorial rank and was added to the archdiocese. Cardinal Orani João Tempesta OCist has been its Archbishop since 2009. Cardinal Eusébio Scheid SCI, who died on January 13, 2021, was Archbishop Emeritus.[2][3]
Since Pope Pius X appointed the second Metropolitan Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro, Joaquim Arcoverde de Albuquerque Cavalcanti, a Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church in 1905, all subsequent Archbishops were either elevated to the Cardinalate during their service in the Archdiocese of Rio de Janeiro, or were transferred to that Metropolitan See when already members of the College of Cardinals.
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