The Catholic University of Salvador (, UCSal) is a private and non-profit Catholic university, located in Salvador, the first capital of Brazil, and fourth largest city of Brazil. It is maintained by the

Catholic The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the List of Christian denominations by number of members, largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics Catholic Church by country, worldwid ...

Archdiocese In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop. History In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associated ...

of Salvador.

Undergraduate Courses

Postgraduate ''lato sensu'' Courses

Postgraduate ''stricto sensu'' Courses

Master Degree

Doctorate Degree

Notable alumni

Alumni

Notable Catholic University of Salvador alumni include: * Augusto Aras, current

prosecutor general of Brazil The prosecutor general of the Republic () is the head of the Brazilian Federal Prosecution Office, an autonomous agency in charge of criminal prosecution and the defense of society in general. The prosecutor general heads a group of independent ...

* Luislinda Valois, jurist, former

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a of the State of

Bahia Bahia () is one of the 26 Federative units of Brazil, states of Brazil, located in the Northeast Region, Brazil, Northeast Region of the country. It is the fourth-largest Brazilian state by population (after São Paulo (state), São Paulo, Mina ...

, former secretary of promotion of racial equality and former minister of human rights * Otto Alencar,

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from

* Ana Arraes, vice president of the

Tribunal de Contas da União The Brazilian Federal Court of Accounts (, often referred to as TCU) is Brazil's federal audit office. It provides assistance to the Congress of Brazil in its Constitutional duty to exercise external audit over the Executive Branch. Its members ...

* João Henrique Carneiro,

politician A politician is a person who participates in Public policy, policy-making processes, usually holding an elective position in government. Politicians represent the people, make decisions, and influence the formulation of public policy. The roles ...

and former

mayor In many countries, a mayor is the highest-ranking official in a Municipal corporation, municipal government such as that of a city or a town. Worldwide, there is a wide variance in local laws and customs regarding the powers and responsibilitie ...

of Salvador *

Bruno Soares Reis Bruno Soares Reis (born May 17, 1977) is a Brazilian politician who is the 70th current mayor of Salvador, Bahia, having served since 2021. He was previously vice-mayor under ACM Neto, to whom he is a close associate of, from 2017 to 2021, and ...

, politician and current

of Salvador after

Antônio Carlos Magalhães Neto Antônio Carlos Peixoto de Magalhães Neto, commonly known as ACM Neto, (born 26 January 1979 in Salvador) is a Brazilian lawyer and politician. He was the national president of the Democrats (DEM), and is currently general secretary of the Bra ...

* Daniel Almeida, current member of the

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in Brazil representing the State of Bahia *

Claudia Leitte Cláudia Cristina Leite Inácio (; born 10 July 1980) is a Brazilian singer and television personality. She rose to fame in late 2002 as the lead vocalist of the Axé music group Babado Novo. The group achieved a string of consecutive diamond- ...

axé Axé () is a popular music genre that originated in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil in the 1980s, fusing different Afro-Caribbean genres, such as marcha, reggae, and calypso. It also includes influences of Brazilian music such as frevo, forró and c ...

and

pop Pop or POP may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media * Pop music, a musical genre Artists * POP, a Japanese idol group now known as Gang Parade * Pop! (British group), a UK pop group * Pop! featuring Angie Hart, an Australian band Album ...

singer * João José Reis, writer and one of the most important historians in Brazil, considered a world reference for the study of history and

slavery Slavery is the ownership of a person as property, especially in regards to their labour. Slavery typically involves compulsory work, with the slave's location of work and residence dictated by the party that holds them in bondage. Enslavemen ...

in the 19th century * Cristiano Chaves de Farias,

Prosecutor A prosecutor is a legal representative of the prosecution in states with either the adversarial system, which is adopted in common law, or inquisitorial system, which is adopted in Civil law (legal system), civil law. The prosecution is the ...

of the

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of the State of

and writer * José Medrado,

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and

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, founder of Centro Espírita Cavaleiros da Luz (Knights of Light Spiritist Center)

References

External links

Official website
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