Ordinariate for Eastern Catholics in Brasile
Brasiliae
Eastern ordinariate immediately subject to the Holy See · Brasile, Brazil
Ordinariate for Eastern Catholic faithful in Brazil who lack a hierarchy of their own particular church, erected on 14 November 1951 by the decree Cum fidelium implementing a 1950 decision of Pope Pius XII. The ordinariate is currently governed by Walmor Oliveira de Azevedo, the Latin Metropolitan Archbishop of Belo Horizonte.
The see
- Rank
- Eastern ordinariate immediately subject to the Holy See
- Erected
- 14 November 1951
- Latin
- Brasiliae
- Annuario code
- 001000315
The see in figures
- Population
- 1,998
- Extent
- 8,514,215 km²
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Archbishop
- Walmor Oliveira de Azevedo
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
History
Eastern Catholics in Brazil who lack a jurisdiction of their own particular churches sui iuris are served by the Ordinariate of Brazil for the faithful of the Eastern rite (Portuguese: Ordinariato para os Fiéis de Ritos Orientais no Brasil), a diocese-like structure of the Catholic Church. It belongs to no ecclesiastical province, being immediately exempt to the Holy See and its Roman Congregation for the Oriental Churches.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Av. Brasil 2079, 30140-008 Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil
- Telephone
- [031]3269-3100; fax 3269-3178
This see keeps no website of its own, so its chancery is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.
What is kept by invitation
The record above is published because it is public: what this see is, when it was erected, who holds its chair, and where it stands among its neighbours.
The working record is not. The clergy of the see, and the hours of Mass, confession and adoration in the parishes within it, are kept for members, and a person reads every request.
Sources
This record is compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. On the method, see the keeping of the record. Whoever finds an error is asked, in charity, to write: [email protected].