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Metropolitan see Natal, Brazil

Archdiocese of Natal

Natalen(sis)

The Archdiocese of Natal is a Latin Rite metropolitan see in Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, erected as a diocese in 1909 and elevated to an archdiocese in 1952. Its suffragan dioceses include Caicó and Mossoró.

On the map

Esri
The address the register holds for Catedral Metropolitana Nossa Senhora da Apresentação, in Natal, Brazil.

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Established
1909
Catholics
1,600,000
Priests
192
Territory
25,153 km²

Parishes and churches

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

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The bishop

Archbishop
João Santos Cardoso

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The cathedral

Catedral Metropolitana Nossa Senhora da Apresentação stands in Natal, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

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History

The city of Natal in Brazil is the seat of a metropolitan archdiocese, known in Latin as Archidioecesis Metropolitae Natalensis.

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