The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Belém do Pará () is an

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located in the city of

Belém Belém (; Portuguese for Bethlehem; initially called Nossa Senhora de Belém do Grão-Pará, in English Our Lady of Bethlehem of Great Pará), often called Belém of Pará, is the capital and largest city of the state of Pará in the north of B ...

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. It covers and is organized into 80 parishes. The Archdiocese covers the municipalities of

, Ananindeua, Benevides,

Marituba Marituba is a municipality in the state of Pará in the Northern region of Brazil. It is the smallest municipality of Pará and the smallest in all Northern Brazil. See also *List of municipalities in Pará This is a list of the municipalities ...

, and

Santa Bárbara do Pará Santa Bárbara do Pará is a municipality in the state of Pará in the Northern region of Brazil. See also *List of municipalities in Pará This is a list of the municipalities in the state of Pará (PA), located in the North Region of Brazi ...

History

* March 4, 1720: Established as Diocese of Belém do Pará from

Diocese of São Luís do Maranhão 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 ...

* May 1, 1906: Promoted as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Belém do Pará

Special churches

*Minor Basilicas: ** Basilica of Our Lady of Nazareth of Exile (''Basílica Santuário Nossa Senhora de Nazaré'') *Cathedrals ** Our Lady of the Conception Cathedral, Abaetetuba (''Catedral Nossa Senhora da Conceição'') **

Our Lady of Grace Cathedral, Belém The Our Lady of Grace Cathedral () also called Catedral Nossa Senhora de Belém. It is the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Belém do Pará and is located in the old quarter of the city in Belém in Brazil. The cathedral is dedicated to O ...

(''Catedral Nossa Senhora das Graças'') *Historic churches ** Church of Saint John the Baptist (''Igreja de São João Batista'') ** Church of Our Lady of the Rosary (''Igreja de Nossa Senhora do Rosário'')

Bishops

(all

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)

Episcopal ordinaries

Bishops of Belém do Pará

# Bartolomeu do Pilar, OCarm (4 March 1720 – 9 April 1733) # Guilherme de São José Antonio de Aranha (3 September 1738 – 18 May 1748) # Miguel de Bulhões e Souza, OP (18 May 1748 – 24 March 1760) #

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, OSB (24 March 1760 – 25 November 1763) # João Evangelista Pereira da Silva,

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(17 June 1771 – 14 May 1782) #

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, TOR (16 December 1782 – 29 March 1790), appointed Archbishop of Braga # Manoel de Almeida de Carvalho (21 June 1790 – 30 June 1818) #

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(28 August 1820 – 15 February 1841) #

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, CM (22 January 1844 – 24 September 1857) # Antônio de Macedo Costa (17 December 1860 – 26 June 1890), appointed Archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia # Jerônimo Tomé da Silva (26 June 1890 – 12 September 1893), appointed Archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia # Antônio Manoel de Castilho Brandão (7 September 1894 – 5 June 1901), Appointed Bishop of Alagôas # Francisco do Rego Maia (5 June 1901 – 3 April 1906) # José Marcondes Homem de Melo (26 April 1906 – 1 May 1906 ''see below'')

Archbishops of Belém do Pará

# José Marcondes Homem de Melo (''see above'' 1 May 1906 – 6 December 1906) # Santino Maria da Silva Coutinho (6 December 1906 – 19 January 1923), appointed Archbishop of Maceió, Alagoas # João Irineu Joffily (27 March 1924 – 1 May 1931) #

Antônio de Almeida Lustosa Antônio de Almeida Lustosa (11 February 1886 - 14 August 1974) was a Brazilian people, Brazilian Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholic prelate and professed member from the Salesians of Don Bosco. Lustosa served in two dioceses and two archdioc ...

, SDB (10 July 1931 – 19 July 1941), appointed Archbishop of Fortaleza, Ceara #

Jaime de Barros Câmara Jaime de Barros Câmara (July 3, 1894 – February 18, 1971) was a Brazilian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro from 1943 to 1971, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1946 by ...

(15 September 1941 – 3 July 1943), appointed Archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro (Cardinal in 1946) #

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(10 September 1944 – 23 October 1956), appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia #

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(9 May 1957 – 4 July 1990) # Vicente Joaquim Zico, CM (4 July 1990 – 13 October 2004) #

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, OCist (13 October 2004 – 19 April 2009), appointed Archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro (Cardinal in 2014) # Alberto Taveira Corrêa (30 December 2009 – present)

Coadjutor Bishops

* Miguel de Bulhões e Souza, O.P. (1748) * Vicente Joaquim Zico, C.M. (1980–1990)

Auxiliary Bishops

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(1962–1967), appointed Bishop of Garanhuns, Pernambuco * Tadeu Henrique (Jude) Prost, O.F.M. (1962–1992) * Alano Maria Pena, O.P. (1975–1976), appointed Coadjutor Prelate of Marabá, Para * Carlos Verzeletti (1996–2004), appointed Bishop of Castanhal, Para * Teodoro Mendes Tavares, C.S.Sp. (2011–2015), appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Ponta de Pedras, Para *

Irineu Roman Irineu is the Portuguese version of the male given name Irenaeus. Notable people with the name include: * Irineu Esteve Altimiras (born 1996), Andorran cross-country skier * Irineu Calixto Couto (born 1983), Brazilian footballer * Irineu Gassen ...

, C.S.I. (2014–2019), appointed Archbishop of Santarém, Para * Antônio de Assis Ribeiro, S.D.B. (2017–present)

Another priest of this diocese who became bishop

, appointed Bishop of Amazonas in 1948; later returned here as Archbishop.

Suffragan dioceses

* Diocese of Abaetetuba * Diocese of Bragança do Pará * Diocese of Cametá, formerly Territorial Prelature of Cametá * Diocese of Castanhal * Diocese of Macapá * Diocese of Marabá * Diocese of Ponta de Pedras * Diocese of Santíssima Conceição do Araguaia * Territorial Prelature of Marajó

Sources

GCatholic.org

Diocese website
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