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Metropolitan see Cascavel, Brazil

Archdiocese of Cascavel

Cascavellen(sis)

Metropolitan Archdiocese of Cascavel in Paraná, Brazil, erected as a diocese in 1978 and elevated to a metropolitan archdiocese in 1979. It is the metropolitan see for the dioceses of Foz do Iguaçu, Palmas-Francisco Beltrão, and Toledo.

On the map

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

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Established
1978
Catholics
292,000
Priests
64
Territory
8,103 km²

Parishes and churches

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

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The bishop

Archbishop
José Mário Scalon Angonese

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The cathedral

Catedral Metropolitana Nossa Senhora Aparecida stands in Cascavel, 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

Cascavel, a city in Brazil, is the seat of a Latin Church archdiocese that bears the Latin title Archidioecesis Cascavellensis.