Eastern exarchate immediately subject to the Holy See São Paulo, Brazil
Apostolic Exarchate of America Latina e Messico
Americae Latinae una cum Mexico
Armenian Catholic Church
Armenian rite apostolic exarchate serving Armenian Catholic faithful across Latin America and Mexico, established on 3 July 1981, with its seat in Sao Paulo, Brazil; it lost territory in 1989 to create the Eparchy of San Gregorio de Narek en Buenos Aires. The see has been vacant since Bishop Pablo Leon Hakimian died in November 2024; Bishop Vartan Waldir Boghossian, S.D.B. was named apostolic administrator on 31 March 2025.
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- Established
- 1981
Parishes and churches
2 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
- Catedral Armênia Nuestra Señora de BzommarMontevideo · CathedralView parish
- Catedral Armênia São Gregório IluminadorSão Paulo · CathedralView parish
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The bishop
- Apostolic Administrator
- Odilo Pedro Scherer (Apostolic Administrator)
- Born
- 21 September 1949
- Birthplace
- Cerro Largo
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The cathedral
St. Gregory the Illuminator Cathedral (Catedral de São Gregório, o Iluminador), São Paulo stands in São Paulo, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
History
Serving parts of Latin America, the Armenian Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Latin America and Mexico (América Latina e México) is a pre-diocesan missionary jurisdiction of the Armenian Catholic Church sui iuris, which follows the Armenian Rite in the Armenian language. It is exempt, depending directly on Rome (notably the Roman Congregation for the Oriental Churches) rather than belonging to any ecclesiastical province. Its cathedral episcopal is the Catedral Armênia São Gregório Iluminador in São Paulo, Brazil, with Nuestra Señora de Bzommar in Montevideo, Uruguay, as co-cathedral.