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Metropolitan see Brasília, Brazil

Archdiocese of Brasília

Brasiliapolitan(us)

Brasília is the metropolitan archdiocese of Brazil's federal capital, erected as a diocese on January 16, 1960 and elevated to a metropolitan archdiocese on October 11, 1966. It is led by Cardinal Paulo Cezar Costa, archbishop since December 2020.

On the map

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The address the register holds for Catedral Metropolitana Nossa Senhora Aparecida, in Brasília, Brazil.

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Established
1960
Catholics
1,555,000
Priests
273
Territory
5,814 km²

Parishes and churches

141 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.

This is our recorded coverage, not an official diocesan parish count. Confirm service times with the parish before travelling.

The bishop

Archbishop
His Eminence Paulo Cezar Cardinal Costa
Born
20 July 1967
Birthplace
Valença

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The cathedral

Catedral Metropolitana Nossa Senhora Aparecida stands in Brasília, 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

Brasília, the Brazilian capital city, is the seat of a Latin Church metropolitan see: the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Brasília, known in Latin as Archidioecesis Metropolitae Brasiliapolitanus.