Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Olinda e Recife

Metropolitan Archdiocese of Olinda e Recife

Archidioecesis Metropolitae Olindensis et Recifensis
Location
CountryBrazil
Statistics
Area4,305 km2 (1,662 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics
(as of 2004)
3,570,703
3,371,975 (94.4%)
Information
RiteLatin Rite
Established15 July 1614 (410 years ago)
CathedralCatedral Metropolitana São Salvador do Mundo, Olinda
Co-cathedralCo-Catedral San Pedro dos Clerigos, Recife
Current leadership
PopeFrancis
Metropolitan ArchbishopPaulo Jackson Nóbrega de Sousa
Auxiliary BishopsLimacêdo Antônio da Silva
Bishops emeritusJosé Cardoso Sobrinho
Antônio Fernando Saburido [de; pl; pt]
Map
Website
www.arquidioceseolindarecife.org

The Metropolitan Archdiocese of Olinda and Recife (Latin: Archidioecesis Metropolitae Olindensis et Recifensis) is a Latin metropolitan archdiocese in northeast Brazil's Pernambuco state.

Special churches

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History

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Co-Cathedral of Recife
Igreja do Corpo Santo, Recife (demolished)

Ecclesiastical province

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Its Suffragan sees are :

Statistics

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Basílica e Convento de Nossa Senhora do Carmo, Recife
Igreja Matriz do Santíssimo Sacramento de Santo Antônio, Recife
Capela Dourada, Recife
Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Conceição dos Militares, Recife
Igreja Madre de Deus, Recife
Convento de São Francisco, Olinda
Basílica e Mosteiro de São Bento, Olinda

As per 2014, it pastorally served 3,804,000 Catholics (94.5% of 4,024,000 total) on 4,058 km² in 114 parishes and 689 missions with 277 priests (122 diocesan, 155 religious), 32 deacons, 1,143 lay religious (251 brothers, 892 sisters) with 63 seminarians.

Bishops

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(all Roman Rite)

Episcopal ordinaries

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Suffragan Bishops of Olinda
  • Estevão Brioso de Figueiredo (born Portugal) (16 Nov 1676 - 27 Sep 1683), next Bishop of Funchal (Madeira, Portugal (27 Sep 1683 – death 1689.05.20)
  • João Duarte do Sacramento not possessed (1685 - death 1685)
  • Matias de Figueiredo e Mello (12 May 1687 - death 18 July 1694 )
  • Francisco de Lima (Lemos) (born Portugal) (22 August 1695 - death 29 April 1704), previously Bishop of São Luís do Maranhão (Brazil) (1691.12.19 – 22 August 1695)
  • Manuel Alvares da Costa (born Portugal) (7 June 1706 - 20 Jan 1721), next Bishop of Angra (Portugal) (1721.01.20 – death 1733.01.10)
  • José de Fialho (born Portugal) (21 Feb 1725 - 3 Sep 1738), next Metropolitan Archbishop of (São Salvador da) Bahia (Brazil) (1738.09.03 – 1741.01.02), Archbishop-Bishop of Guarda (Portugal) (1741.01.02 – 1741.03.18)
  • Luiz de Santa Teresa da Cruz Salgado de Castilho (born Portugal) (3 Sep 1738 - death 17 Nov 1757)
  • Francisco Xavier Aranha (17 Nov 1757 - death 5 Oct 1771), previously Titular Bishop of Thermopylæ (1754.02.11 – 1757.11.17) as Coadjutor Bishop of Olinda (1754.02.11 – 1757.11.17)
  • Francisco da Assumpção e Brito (born Portugal) (8 March 1773 - 20 Dec 1773), next Metropolitan Archbishop of Goa (then Portuguese India) (1773.12.20 – retired 1783.06.23), died 1808
  • Tomaz da Encarnação da Costa e Lima (18 April 1774 - died 14 Jan 1784)
  • Diego de Jesus Jardim (14 Feb 1785 - 21 Feb 1794), next Bishop of Elvas (Portugal) (1794.02.21 – death 1796.05.30)
  • José Joaquim da Cunha Azeredo Coutinho (12 Sep 1794 - 6 Oct 1806), next Bishop of Elvas (Portugal) (1806.10.06 – death 1821.09.12)
  • José Maria de Araújo (born Portugal) (6 Oct 1806 - death 21 Sep 1809)
  • Antônio de São José Bastos (15 March 1815 - death 19 July 1819)
  • ? Tomaz de Noronha e Brito (1828 – 1829) (23 June 1828 - death 6 March 1829)
  • ? Tomas Manoel de Noronha e Britto (born Portugal) (23 June 1828 - death 6 March 1829)
  • João da Purificação Marques Perdigão (28 Feb 1831 - retired 30 April 1864), previously Bishop of Cochin (India) (1819.12.17 – 1828.06.23); died 1874
BIOS to ELABORATE
  • Francisco Cardoso Aires (20 Dec 1867 - 12 May 1870)
  • Vital Maria Gonçalves de Oliveira (21 May 1871 - 4 July 1878)
  • José Pereira da Silva Barros (7 Jan 1881 - 25 June 1891), appointed Bishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro
  • João Fernando Santiago Esberard (Esberrard) (born Spain) (12 May 1891 - 12 Sep 1893), appointed Archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro
  • Manoel dos Santos Pereira (12 Sep 1893 - 25 April 1900 )
  • Luís Raimundo da Silva Brito (23 Feb 1901 - 5 Dec 1910 see below)
Metropolitan Archbishops of Olinda
Metropolitan Archbishops of Olinda & Recife

Coadjutor bishops

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  • Coadjutor Bishop: Francisco Xavier Aranha (1754.02.11 – 1757.11.17)
  • Coadjutor Bishop: João Fernando Santiago Esberard (Esberrard) (1890.06.26 – 1891.05.12); future Archbishop
  • Coadjutor Archbishop: João Irineu Joffily (1914.08.18 – 1916.05.04), did not succeed to see; appointed Bishop of Amazonas
  • Coadjutor Archbishop: João Batista Portocarrero Costa (1953.07.03 – 1959.01.06), did not succeed to see

Auxiliary bishops

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  • Auxiliary Bishop: José Lamartine Soares (1962.11.16 – 1985.04.02), appointed Archbishop of Maceió, Alagoas
  • Auxiliary Bishop: Hilário Moser (1988.08.17 – 1992.05.27), appointed Bishop of Tubarão, Santa Catarina
  • Auxiliary Bishop: João Evangelista Martins Terra, S.J. (1988.08.17 – 1994.06.15), appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Brasília, Distrito Federal
  • Auxiliary Bishop: Bishop Fernando Antônio Saburido, O.S.B. (2000.05.31 – 2005.05.18), appointed Bishop of Sobral, Ceara (later returned here as Archbishop)

Other priests of this diocese who became bishops

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See also

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