Metropolitan see Brasília, Brazil
Archdiocese of Brasília
Brasiliapolitan(us)
Latin Church
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.
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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.
- São Judas TadeuBrasíliaView parish
- São Luís OrioneParanoáView parish
- São Marcos e São LucasCeilândiaView parish
- São MateusSobradinhoView parish
- São Miguel ArcanjoRecanto das EmasView parish
- São Miguel ArcanjoRiacho Fundo IView parish
- São Miguel Arcanjo e Santo ExpeditoBrasíliaView parish
- São Paulo ApóstoloBrazlândiaView parish
- São Paulo ApóstoloGuaráView parish
- São PedroTaguatingaView parish
- São Pedro ApóstoloCeilândiaView parish
- São Pedro de AlcântaraLago SulView parish
- São Pedro e São PauloTaguatingaView parish
- São Pio de PietrelcinaCruzeiroView parish
- São SebastiãoTaguatingaView parish
- São SebastiãoBrazlândiaView parish
- São SebastiãoGamaView parish
- São SebastiãoPlanaltinaView parish
- São Vicente de PauloTaguatingaView parish
- São Vicente de PauloPlanaltinaView parish
- Verbo DivinoBrasíliaView parish
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.