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Metropolitan see Joinville, Brazil

Archdiocese of Joinville

Ioinvillen(sis)

Latin Church

Joinville was erected as a diocese in 1927 and elevated to a metropolitan archdiocese by Pope Francis on 5 November 2024. Located in Santa Catarina, Brazil, it is the metropolitan see with the suffragan dioceses of Rio do Sul and Blumenau.

On the map

Esri
The address the register holds for Catedral Sao Francisco Xavier, in Joinville, Brazil.

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Established
1927
Catholics
641,000
Priests
151
Territory
9,478 km²

Parishes and churches

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

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The bishop

Archbishop
Francisco Carlos Bach
Born
4 May 1954
Birthplace
Ponta Grossa

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The cathedral

Catedral Sao Francisco Xavier stands in Joinville, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

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History

Joinville, in Santa Catarina in Brazil's Southern Region, is the metropolitan see of an ecclesiastical province of its own (Latin: Archidioecesis Ioinvillensis). Before its elevation in 2024 it served as a suffragan diocese within the province of Florianópolis, also in Santa Catarina. The archdiocese's cathedral, Catedral São Francisco Xavier in the city of Joinville, honors saint Francis Xavier.